Galvanis Art translates ideas, geometric figures and themes from the world of digital systems into physical, tangible artworks, in a range of sizes.
From October 17th to November 13th, all four pieces of the Absent Form series will be shown at the Neonbazaar gallery in Stuttgart.
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Sacred geometry, drawn in copper traces on a circuit board.
Three motifs, one board: a sun, Metatron’s Cube and the Flower of Life, connected by traces that grow like circuitry. Gold and white lines on black.
A group exhibition at NeonBazaar Art Gallery, Stuttgart.
A deliberately analog retreat in the middle of the city: a show about stepping away from screens and standing in front of real work. Expect radical minimalism, tactile materials and sculptures that take up physical space.
The Absent Form series is part of this exhibition. Phone away, glass of wine in hand — that’s the idea.
Exhibition page at NeonBazaar ↗Every piece is made the way the electronics industry makes boards: digital first, then chemistry.
Everything starts as a complete digital twin: vectors, colors and the placement of every layer are defined on screen before anything physical exists.
The design is translated into the language of the factory: Gerber files, one for each layer (copper, soldermask, silkscreen, outline), plus drill data.
The raw board is a fiberglass core covered entirely in copper. The pattern is exposed onto it and the board goes into an etching bath that dissolves all unprotected copper. Only the designed traces stay.
Soldermask lacquer is applied and gives the board its color, with chosen copper areas left open. Those areas are plated in ENIG, a thin layer of nickel topped with gold. Finally, white silkscreen ink is printed for lines and lettering.
Not a printed picture of a circuit board — a real, functional-grade PCB, manufactured exactly like any board in the industry.
As an electronics engineer, I work with printed circuit boards almost every day — yet most people never actually see one, since it usually disappears inside a black plastic housing the moment a device is assembled. Each piece here is a genuine PCB, built up from FR4 fiberglass, copper, a soldermask coating and a white silkscreen layer. Soldermask is the thin lacquer that insulates the copper traces and gives the board its color — available in several finishes. Silkscreen is the printed white ink layer normally used for labels and markings.
The boards run through the exact same industrial process used to manufacture a MacBook motherboard or the server boards inside an AI data center — including etching, where unwanted copper is chemically dissolved away, leaving only the fine traces of the design behind.
Industry-standard substrate, same as any consumer or industrial board.
Etched copper traces carrying the pattern across the board.
Available in several colors — the lacquer that gives each board its look.
Printed ink layer, normally used for labels and component markings.
Commissions are currently closed — but I’m always open to interesting art collaborations. Reach out anytime at contact@galvanisart.com.