卡卡西卡的秘密 Kagkatikas Secret / quintessenz

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Quintessenz：德国艺术家Thomas Granseuer和Tomislav Topic(又名Quintessenz)的新装置完成了所有这些。Kagkatikas Secret位于希腊帕克斯岛，是帕克斯当代艺术项目的一部分，由悬挂在一处有400年历史的希腊废墟上的喷漆纺织品制成。令人眼花缭乱、像素化的效果会让你怀疑矩阵是否闪耀，而美丽的设计和渐变色彩帮助它迅速走红。

Quintessenz：A new installation from German artists Thomas Granseuer and Tomislav Topic, aka Quintessenz, does all that. Located on the Greek island of Paxos as part of the Paxos Contemporary Art Project, Kagkatikas Secret is made of spray-painted textiles hung in a 400 year-old Greek ruin. The trippy, pixelated effect will make you wonder if the matrix is glitching, while the beautiful design and gradient colors helped it go viral instantly.

这个装置借鉴了以前法国南部的Paradis Paradis Perdus和柏林Panorama时装周上闪烁的灯光。据他们的网站称，格兰索尔和Topic的作品受到涂鸦艺术和染色质等来源的启发，他们的首要目标是生产“为其颜色创造空间”的艺术。

The installation borrows from previous Quintessenz pieces Paradis Perdus in the south of France and Flickering Lights at Berlin’s Panorama Fashion Week. Gransaur and Topic’s work is inspired by graffiti art and chromatics, among other sources, and their overarching aim is to produce art that “makes/creates space for its color,” according to their website.

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这幅作品使用了超过120种颜色，随着你走向废墟的尽头，面板变得越来越大，在卡加蒂卡镇被称为“旧石头房子”。因为它们也是透明的，所以你可以透过面板看到整件作品的感觉，这当然会在灰色的废墟上弹出。与此同时，它看起来会因你的视角不同而不同，如果你从其中一个窗口看，它会显得很特别。

The piece uses over 120 shades of color, and the panels get larger as you walk toward the end of the ruin, called “Old Stone House” in the town of Kagkatika. As they’re also transparent, you can see through the panels to get a sense of the entire piece, which certainly pops against the gray-colored ruin. At the same time, it looks different depending on your angle of view, and is particularly weird if you view it through one of the windows.

Quintessenz的作品和其他七位艺术家的作品一起在Paxos周围的多个媒体和地点展出。据策展人说，目的是“突出岛上的精神，支持年轻艺术家的作品”。

Quintessenz’s work is being exhibited along with work from seven other artists displayed in multiple mediums and locations around Paxos. The aim is to “highlight the spirit of the island and support the work of young artists,” according to the curators.

这项工作可能会让你想到数字艺术在模拟世界中的地位，但是当你亲自观看时，你不会从照片中得到来自风的动力成分(见上面的视频)。如果你有幸亲自去参观，艺术家们不只是想让你安装它然后离开。相反，“我们希望我们工作的访客能暂时把手机摄像头放在口袋里，享受光线和材料中的风的翻译，”他们解释道。

The work might make you think about the place of digital art in an analog world, but when viewed in person, there’s a kinetic component from the wind that you don’t get from the photos (see the video, above). If you should be lucky enough to visit it in person, the artists don’t just want you to Instagram it and leave. Rather, “we hope that the visitors of our work leave their mobile phone cameras in their pockets for a moment and simply enjoy the light and the translation of the wind in the material,” they explain.