Title
Sonix
(circa 1969)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1969)
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Time-based art
- Materials used
- light and sound sculpture
- Dimensions
- Credit
- Gift of the Peter Stuvyesant Trust 1972
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 55.1972.a-d
- Copyright
- © Estate of Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski
- Artist information
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Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski
Works in the collection
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About
'Sonix' was commissioned from the artist by the Peter Stuyvesant Trust in 1968. It was intended as an addition to the successful 'Art of the Space Age' exhibition which ran at the Art Gallery of South Australia at the end of 1968 and, following completion, was shown at state and regional galleries across the country in 1971 and 1972.
The 'chromasonic unit' is activated by music, the computerised notes of which create a series of flashing lights. The softer the note the softer the glow; the stronger the note the more violent the flash of light.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Lightworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 09 Nov 1993–23 Mar 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Zara Stanhope, Luminaries, Victoria, Sep 1993, 8 (colour illus.), 31. cat.no. 33
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Editor Unknown, Sunraysia daily, 'Space and sculpture', Mildura, 26 Oct 1971, (illus.). Display of scultpure in Mildura at the Arts Centre in 1971.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The advertiser, 'Commission for artist', Adelaide, 09 Dec 1968.
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