NYAB Event - Janusz Kapusta "Rhapsody in K-Dron"

Janusz Kapusta "Rhapsody in K-Dron"

Gershwin Hotel

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Suzanne Tremblay presents Janusz Kapusta: Rhapsody in K-Dron, an image and 3D installation Exhibition at the Gershwin Hotel. The featured artist for March, Janusz Kapusta reconstructs “the infinity of K-Dron” with this first-time-ever interior installation recreating the Gershwin lobby. Kapusta goes beyond the mathematic theory and fine art: broken logic.

The idea of Janusz Kapusta: Rhapsody in K-Dron is for the viewers to set aside the semantic argument and maximize the direct visual impact and more tactile experience. The Gershwin Hotel has been collaborating with artists/thinkers who break through the borders of imagination thus Janusz Kapusta, this exceptional artist brings a process of discovering the minimal yet extremely puzzling geometrical form that straddling the line between art and science. Janusz Kapusta is 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,” as quoted from Jay Kappraff, professor of mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

The K-Dron is the geometrical formdefined 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.