TELLURIDE ARTS PRESENTS:
MEET THE MAKERS SERIES: JOHANNES GIRARDONI
MONDAY, MAY 17. DOORS AT 6PM, PRESENTATION AT 7PM
ARTIST TALKS AT THE TELLURIDE TRANSFER WAREHOUSE
201 S FIR STREET, TELLURIDE, CO
Johannes Girardoni (born Austria, 1967) is an American sculptor and installation artist. Girardoni’s work is driven by his interest in perception, and how natural and artificial phenomena can be organized to create responsive environments that shift our experience and understanding of site and space. His physical sculptures and environments are often overlaid with digital interfaces that collect data and create artificial sensory mechanisms that merge with our own human perception, a primary example of which is converting light to sound with algorithmic processes the artist calls SpectroSonic Refrequencing. Girardoni’s diverse works in sculpture, photography and installations range from small, organic objects to large-scale interactive light installations that are in play with their site, with architecture, or with technology. His projects regularly lead him to diverse collaborations with architects, artists, scientists, and software engineers.
Johannes is part of the artist collective, Chromasonic, a studio and research lab founded by Johannes Girardoni Studio with sound artists and musicians Orpheo McCord and Joel Shearer. Chromasonic explores fundamental relationships between light and sound. They have produced Fluid State in the Deep Creek Mine outside of Telluride and will be doing a second installation at the Telluride Transfer Warehouse this summer.
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Girardoni’s art has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide, including in the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy, the Ludwig Museum, Germany, The Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, The Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, as well as at TED2014:The Next Chapter, Vancouver, British Columbia. Girardoni has been the subject of features and reviews both nationally, and internationally, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ArtNews, Art in America, and Sculpture, among others. Girardoni is the recipient of the 2019 Fancis J. Greenburger Award.