다니엘 레르곤 (Daniel Lergon)

Daniel Lergon (b.1978, Bonn) is a German artist who experiments with light effects and chemical reactions, exploring optics and perception. He began his inquiries into color, the interaction of light on different surfaces and optical effects. Lergon has been working with fabrics of different optical and physical qualities, to which he applies lacquers and transparent varnishes to produce a broad range of effects that vary with the position of the viewer. In his early works, Lergon used color pigments within the range of the color spectrum, applying them to all kinds of material surfaces. In later work, while using transparent varnishes and synthetic, retro reflective fabric as painting surface (which reflects the light in the same direction from which it comes), he also includes colors at the very extremes of the spectrum into his work. His intensive study of the colors was thus always tied to the materiality of the painting’s ground and the question regarding this influence this would have on the viewer’s perception.

다니엘 레르곤은 산업적 광학 기술인 재귀반사를 적용하여, 화면이 관람자의 위치, 시선, 광원 조건에 따라 끊임없이 변화하고 확장되는 지각의 장을 만들어낸다.

그는 베를린 예술대학교를 졸업하고, 2025년 〈Auflösung〉 (레이지 마이크, 서울), 2024년 〈Flow〉 (뮤제움 슈티키, 로지), 2022년 〈Umbra〉 (갤러리 크리스티안 레테르트, 쾰른), 〈Clareira〉 (리만+실바, 포르투), 〈Lichtung〉 (PSM, 베를린), 2021년 〈Lines and Grids〉 (갤러리 마리오 라넬리, 로마), 2013년 〈Correspondance Métallique〉 (알민 레쉬 갤러리, 브뤼셀) 등 40여 회의 개인전을 진행했으며 100여회의 단체전을 진행했다.