The artist I chose to do my presentation on is Carnovsky. His most current work is called RGB. It makes use of the RGB and CMYK color models as shown below. When manipulating these two color models, you can view cyan, magenta and yellow pigments or prints through the RGB light spectrum to view different layers in one piece of art. For example looking through green light makes magenta visible, blue light makes yellow visible, and red light makes cyan visible.

Carnovsky’s art falls under 3 main categories: nature, architecture, and anatomy, and sometimes a combination of all 3.

Next, Carnovsky explains how “RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”. RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus. Each piece is the superimposition of 3 different images, each one in a primary color of CMYK. Carnovsky’s RGB is an ongoing project that experiments with the interaction between printed and light colours. The resulting images are unexpected and disorienting. The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear. Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed. The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three layers.” (carnovsky.com).

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I really appreciate Carnovsky’s unique art work. Once you understand how simple the concepts are, it is extraordinary how complex the images seem, under white light and colored light.