Pixel Symphony
@pixelsymphony
Algorithmic & Plotter Artist | Master’s in History of Modern Art & Curatorial Studies | Store: www.pixelsymphony.art/store
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Excited to announce The Shape of Time, marking my return to @galeriemet, opening 28 November through 9 December.
The physical exhibition brings together new works leading into the release of full algorithmic series on @verse.
If you’re in Berlin, I hope you’ll visit!
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Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum. 1597.
Engraving.
Kepler proposed that the distance relationships between the six planets known at that time could be understood in terms of the five Platonic solids, enclosed within a sphere that represented the orbit of Saturn.
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Charles Lacouture, Trilobe synoptique. 1890.
Chromolithograph.
From Chromatic Repertory, a reasoned and practical solution to the most common problems in the study and use of color.
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Károly Keserü, Untitled Mosaic Series. 2024 (BE, 5).
Ink and graphite on paper.
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Leopold Mössbrugger, Der geometrische Unterricht (Descriptive Geometry), c. 1865.
Engraved plates on paper.
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Jacopo de’ Barbari, Glass truncated rhombicuboctahedron depicted in Portrait of Luca Pacioli. c. 1495-1500.
Oil on panel.
Full painting 👇
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Pierre Chabat, Cours de dessin géométrique à l’usage des écoles municipales et professionnelles (Geometric Drawing Course for Municipal and Vocational Schools). 1885.
Printed instructional plates.
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Romano Hänni, Glyphen aus der Steinzeit (Signs from the Stone Age). 1988-1989.
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F. Roseling, Guide to the Construction of Gothic Details. 1888.
Architectural plates.
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Alighiero Boetti, Alternando da uno a cento e viceversa (Alternating from one to one hundred and vice versa). 1977-78.
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Lothar Schreyer, Kreuzigung. 1920.
From Schreyer’s stage work Spielgang. Geometric bodies, symbolic color, and typographic signs signify movement, speech, and ritual.
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Frank Alvah Parsons, The Principles of Advertising Arrangement, 1912.
Spectrum and value charts codifying color contrast, hierarchy and legibility. A pedagogical bridge between 19th CE color theory & graphic design.
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Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, Studie van kamperfoelie (Study of honeysuckle). 1874.
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Gertrud Arndt, Étude sur les couleurs, Bauhaus Weimar. ca. 1924.
Watercolor and gouache on cardboard.
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Helmuth Theodor Bossert, Nine Plates from An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century. 1928.
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Otto Treumann, Sketches for Benelux Stamps. 1969.
Gouache & pencil on paper.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours). 1810.
Plate mapping color sequences on a grid to compare Natur and Wunsch (Nature and Desire).
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Ferdinand Friedrich Hans Schraidt, Geometrical Drawing: A Collection of Plates for Practical Use in Elementary Mechanical Drawing. 1915.
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Albert Henry Munsell, Atlas of the Munsell Color System. 1915.
A foundational reference that systematizes color according to hue, value, and chroma.
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Sol LeWitt, Working drawing for set C, poster for an exhibition at Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich. 1967.
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Old Fashioned Window (also known as Garden Window or Fugue). c. 1927-28.
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Emil Jansen, From Revised Edition of Textile Design Book. A Practical Composition for the Construction of New Designs. 1898.
A guide to textile composition grounded in repeat, symmetry, and modular construction.
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If there was a thread running through this year, it was learning to look again. A bit slower, with more patience. Most of the work came out of that shift, not as big revelations, but as small attempts that felt honest enough to keep going.
A short thread to bring 2025 to a close 🧵👇
Happy New Year 🖤🥂
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