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His new installation plays with time and space to create mind-bending illusions in otherwise ordinary rooms.
Normal walls are too dull. They don’t create optical illusions, for one, nor do they have lines all over them that look like a sketched fever dream, for two.
Renowned Australian artist Peter Kogler is here to fix that with his latest room installation works, inspired by American minimalism and computer-generated art. Each piece uses black and white line patterns and geometric shapes to create a false sense of fluidity, occupying corridors, stairwells, halls, and walkways which may otherwise go unnoticed.
It’s enough to make your head spin.
What is Peter Kogler best known for?
Born in 1959, Peter is highly regarded for his psychedelic room installations that he’s been working on throughout his career. Using both painting and projection, Peter has dabbled in various different technologies to continually increase the depth and size of his works with each new installation.
During an interview in 2014, Peter explained that he’s ‘always been very interested in how far my visual idioms can be transformed by technological developments’, which is demonstrated in the ambitiously large-scale design of each installation.
He’s created pieces across the globe, with rooms in Rome, Innsbruck, Germany, and Austria, amongst others.
While each one is different, they all share similarities. These include pipe-like wavy lines that bleed between walls, and block colours of black and white that are used to create a ‘very strong visual presence’. Peter stated that he wanted the viewer to ‘stand in the picture’ and ‘experience it physically’. In short, these optical illusions are meant to be impactful experiences, rather than static works to be admired behind a frame.
Do you reckon Peter’s successful in his aims? Have you ever visited one of his works before? Let us know in the comments and check out some of his mind-bending works below.
