Schein blossom (feueur) 2020

Jonny Niesche’s artworks investigate how we perceive and experience the space around us. In these three pieces — Schein blossom (feueur), Schein blossom (mond) and Schein blossom (sonnen) 2020 — Niesche stretches multiple layers of digitally printed sheer voile fabric over one another, creating vibrating and pulsating patterns that can be seen when moving around the artworks. This visual disturbance, known as the moiré effect, is caused by the intersection of overlapping transparent patterns. The effect is echoed in the word ‘Schein’ in Niesche’s titles, which means ‘shine’ in German.

These artworks sample colours from clothing by Belgian fashion designer Dries van Noten; the album cover for David Bowie’s 1971 single ‘Moonage Daydream’; and an image of deep space taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Drawing from art, design, fashion and contemporary culture, Niesche explores the life cycles of colours and how they are consumed by the masses.