Luftwerk: The Material of Light (Artist Lecture)
@ Columbia College Chicago, Design Department
623 S Wabash, Room 203, Chicago IL
Opening Thursday, April 7th, at 6PM
The Design Department at Columbia College Chicago is pleased to present The Material of Light, a lecture by Luftwerk
Luftwerk augments experiences of spaces and sites, blends history and contemporary media to open a new aesthetic conversation. With immersive light art installations at landmarks such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, Tampa’s Kiley Garden and most recently at the Garfield Park Conservatory, their installations invite viewers to perceive the environment, histories and concepts surrounding them with a heightened awareness for meaning and place.
Luftwerk is the artistic vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Petra Bachmaier holds an MA from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany. She also holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and spent an academic semester at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Sean Gallero, originally from the Bronx, studied art and humanities at Lehman College – City University of New York. With a focus on applied arts, he continued studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bachmaier and Gallero met during Performance Art studies at SAIC (1999), where they discovered a shared sensibility towards creating art. The artist duo formed Luftwerk in 2007.
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