Dutchman Rombout Frieling says of his concept: “Colors don’t really exist. They only exist in our heads. They are the result of complex processes of observation, comparison and adaptation.” A carpet of light and color, which was rolled out in front of the Next Liberty Children’s and Youth Theater on Opernring, proved that our eyes play many a trick on us. Patterns, structures and waves appear through slight changes in color. Completely different colors can suddenly appear uniform. What appears to be red may also be yellow. Viewed in a different light.

KLANGLICHT 2017

Location: Next Liberty

Rombout Frieling, born in 1983, studied at Stanford University, Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. Today, he works primarily as a designer and researcher who is interested in how matter moves people. Together with his team, he develops projects that combine technology with human potential. Rombout is the inventor of “vertical walking”, which was presented for the first time last year at the Venice Biennale. He is also the founder of IKAWA, a social enterprise for the democratization of coffee distribution. He headed the Experimental Lab at the Philips Lighting Institute in Eindhoven for many years.