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Milan 2013: leafy forests and palatial interiors become visible under different coloured lights in the latest series of wallpapers and screens by Milan design studio Carnovsky (+ slideshow).

The RGB Fabulous Landscapes installation at the Fondazione Adolfo Pini in Milan this month included a wallpaper that reveals various scenes depending on the colour of the LEDs shining on it.

The combination of red, blue or green light reveals the interior of a grand building, a dense forest or a marching crowd.

On the upper floor of the building, Carnovsky showed lacquered wooden screens and a handmade carpet decorated with animals and anatomical drawings, all limited editions produced by design brand Artep Italia.

In the courtyard outside, the designers installed the Atmospherics series of 20 screens depicting landscapes and meteorological phenomena, such as a sun bursting through the clouds.

Created in collaboration with Italian graphics and printing company Graphic Report, the scenes on each screen take on a different mood depending on the colour of the light.

Carnovsky was founded by designers Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007.

We first reported on the RGB series in 2010 when Johannsen Gallery in Berlin presented an exhibition of Carnovsky’s work, while in 2011 the studio used the wallpaper to deck out an east London bar and gallery.

Last year we featured a lamp that uses three different-coloured LEDs to cast cyan, magenta and yellow shadows on the walls.

Photographs are by Alvise Vivenza.

Here’s some more information from the designers:

Carnovsky – RGB Fabulous Landscapes
Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Corso Garibaldi 2, Milan
Milan Design Week 9-14 April 2013

Curator: Dalia Gallico
Printing and Set Construction: GraphicReport
Design Limited Edition: Artep Italia

For Milan Design Week 2013, Carnovsky continues its RGB project experimenting with new designs, new materials and new technologies, continuing the journey begun in 2010 on the interaction between printed and light colours. The main theme is the landscape in its different meanings. Atmospheric landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes in continuous movement.

In the colonnaded courtyard the Atmospherics series is presented for the first time, a series of sky landscapes and meteorological phenomena. The whole series comprises more than 20 pieces. One giant sky titled Atmospheric N.1, printed with an innovative technique of digital fresco of the Italian company GraphicReport and illuminated by RGB LED lights, creates a magical show of sunrises, sunsets and storms.

Within the space on the ground floor, another large installation that uses the work titled Landscape N.1, in which the viewer is immersed in an enchanted forest, gradually turns in an architectural interior. The exterior reverses in the interior and the vanishing point of the columns and the perspective planes expands the space multiplying it to the infinite.

Finally, in the rooms on the upper floor of the Foundation, a dialogue between antique and contemporary has been created, placing some Carnovsky’s limited editions produced by the Italian company Artep Italia like the screens in lacquered wood with antique engravings of animals and anatomy and the hand made carpets in a historical Milanese building.

Carnovsky has been working on some new limited editions which include a collection of screens (UV digital printing on lacquered wood), a collection of carpets hand-knotted in India and a collection of tapestries woven in Aubusson. Some of these objects including the three screens and a carpet were presented at the first floor of the Fondazione Pini as part of the RGB Fabulous Landscapes exhibition.

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Johannsen Gallery in Berlin present an exhibition of wallpapers by Milanese collective Carnovsky that change under different lighting conditions.

The wallpapers, called RGB, feature superimposed imagery printed in red, green, yellow and blue.

The separate layers are revealed when illuminated by different coloured lights.

The range was created for Italian brand Jannelli & Volpi earlier this year and the exhibition continues until 10 February 2011.

Photos are by Alvise Vivenza.

The information below is from the designers:

Carnovsky’s RGB – Color est e pluribus unus

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”. RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color. The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition 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 levels.

Carnovsky’s exhibition at Direktorenhaus, Berlin, is structured in three different scales, from the large to the small, from an architectonic scale, to an object one, passing through the prints. In the architectonic level one of the gallery’s rooms has been set up with a large installation made of wallpapers and colored lights: It is a sort of “fresco” made with contemporary technologies, “frescos”, but instead of being static, they are in mutable and fluctuating, capable of creating an ambient in continuous movement.

The represented subject is the antique theme of the metamorphosis intended as an unceasing transformation of shapes from a “primigenial chaos”. For this purpose we have created a sort of catalogue of natural motifs starting with the engravings from natural history’s great European texts, between the 500 and the 700, from Aldrovandi to Ruysch, from Linneus to Bonnaterre.

A catalogue that does not have a taxonomic or scientific aim in the modern sense, but that wants to classify both the real and the fantastic, the true and the verisimilar in the way medieval bestiaries did. In each image three layers live together, three worlds that could belong to a specific natural kingdom, but that at the same time connect to a different psychological or emotional status that passes from the clear to the hidden, from the light to the darkness, from the awakeness to the dream.

Besides the installation, there were presented some new limited edition RGB pieces, developed on the traditional playing card’s theme: a RGB playing cards deck and a series of lithographic prints of the “Horseman” subject. In each card there are printed three different playing cards: The overlapping of colors mixes up the forms in a way that it is difficult to recognize which figure is represented, an enigma that can be solved just through the use of one of the colored filters.

Johanssen Gallery, Direktorenhaus, Berlin
5th November 2010 – 10th February 2011

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Wallpaper by Katrin Olina	Wallpaper by Marcel Wanders	Wallpaper by Linda Florence

Une idée pour habiller les espaces avec Carnovsky, un duo de designers milanais, qui ont imaginé un modèle novateur pour le fabricant de papier-peint Jannelli & Volpi. Le concept : suivant la lumière diffusée dans la pièce, le papier change et montre des dessins.

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