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PAUL KOLKER COLLECTION

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Video Link: https://youtu.be/R6iVXGVeobc
Artist: Paul Kolker
Exhibition Title: Tensions Between LIght and Water
Exhibition Dates: November 10 - January 13, 2017
Gallery Link: http://paulkolker.com/exhibitions/tensions-between-light-and-water-an-experiment-in-perception/

Kolker, as both artist and curator, asserts that the phenomenological experiences of a work of art, including its exhibition which is also a work of art, are emotional, memorable and understandable; i.e. perceptual. However, when that same art experience is critically assessed or tested, the work, or exhibition for that matter, is transformed into a psychology experiment about perception in which the viewer becomes the measuring instrument and the interpreter of the experimental results. The resultant art as experiment provides us with an understanding how our perceptions are influenced by biases of prior experiences, including how we have learned to see things as if we were a part of the picture; as in a projective psychological test. In this exhibition, the experiment tests how our prior experiences of seeing objects submerged in water, which gives the illusion of being bent or distorted, influence how we see the same objects through air; also as being bent or distorted.
Using surface and underwater videos of his aqua therapy pool’s refracted and reflected light by surface ripples and whorls of laminar currents projecting highlights onto the walls of the pool, Kolker creates a variety of illusions filling his six infinity video light sculptures in all dimensions; spacial and temporal. The result of the perceptual experiment is all about how the viewer sees, feels about and understands the illusions of streams of light distorted by refraction in water and reflected recursively within the mirrored video light sculptures.

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