Janusz Kapusta: Rhapsody In K-Dron...

JANUSZ KAPUSTA: RHAPSODY IN K-DRON
AN IMAGE AND 3D INSTALLATION EXHIBITION AT THE GERSHWIN HOTEL

Closing Reception:
Wednesday April 18th, 2012  6-8 p.m.
Exhibition: March 21st – April 20th, 2012
Gershwin Hotel Lobby
7 East 27th Street, New York, NY

“The idea of Janusz Kapusta: Rhapsody in K-DRON is for the viewers to set aside the semantic argument to maximize the direct visual impact. The Gershwin Hotel has been collaborating with artists/thinkers who break through the borders of imagination – here we came up with the wild exhibition format,” Janusz Kapusta, the artist noted. In a previous review describing the exceptional artist and his process of discovering this minimal yet extremely puzzling geometrical form that straddles the line between art and science, Janusz Kapusta was credited as “an unusual designer who succeeded in transforming his passion for philosophy into a fascinating and versatile structure which he calls the K-Dron, a new form of fundamental importance that breaks the symmetry in the infinite space stretching both above it and below it,” quoted from Jay Kappraff, professor of mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

The K-Dron is the geometrical form defined by its complexity and subtly. Discovered by Janusz Kapusta in 1985 and patented in 1987, the name K-Dron originates from K, the 11th letter of the alphabet, and GK-EDRON, the Greek word for surface. Being both a remarkably simple and complex structure, its basic form has a square base, 11 multifaceted sides and a diamond-shaped face with a 45-degree angle of inclination. Janusz Kapusta has developed K-Dron’s versatility to invent the K-Dron game in which 8 K-Drons of two colors (black and white) can be manipulated to produce patterns of up to 38,416 possible combinations.

Image: (Left) K-DRON in NYC Pulaski Day Parade in 2007; (Right) K-Dron (white). Courtesy of Janusz Kapusta.

About Janusz Kapusta
Born in 1951 in Poland, Janusz Kapusta, the discoverer of K-Dron, is an artist interested in mathematics and philosophy. His discovery of the new geometrical rules of famous golden proportion was first published in Forma (2004) and he received his Ph.D. in Art in 2010. Kapusta’s work ranges from graphic forms, magazine illustrations, graphic designs, set design to paintings. His illustration works have been featured in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and many others major press. He has also received numerous prestigious awards including The International Best Drawing Published in Press in 2004 in Portugal. His work can be found in the collections of many international museums and galleries – Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz and IBM collection, to name a few. Kapusta is the author of Almost Everybody (1989), Janusz Kapusta in the New York Times (1995), and K-Dron, Patented Infinity (1995). His parallel exhibition of art based on K-Dron is currently presenting in Opava, Czech Republic.

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