Tomorrow I’ll visit A Life in Light, James Turrell’s exhibition at the Louise T Blouin Foundation. I wish Joanna could be in London, I think she’d like to come along!
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A couple of friends of mine (Gianpaolo e Michela) came to London last weekend. They had with them La Repubblica women magazine ‘D’. While I was running my eye over this familiar pubblication, I found quite an interesting news.
The Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art in Bruxelles presents the group exhibition A BIT O’WHITE.
From CCNA website
“The color phenomenon WHITE has long served as a subject of symbolism in religion, metaphysical thinking and literature, as well as in scientific and philosophical research. But it was not until the beginning of the last century, with the work of Kasimir Malevich, that WHITE in its radical form of expression first entered the world of the visual arts. Since this early, strong, seminal and - in his case utopian – statement the use of the color/material WHITE has become an integral part of artistic practice either in its pure form or as part of a broader frame of reference (De Stijl, Arp, Rauschenberg, Manzoni, LeWitt, Ryman, Group Zero, etc.). Continue reading ‘A BIT O’ WHITE’
French artist Daniel Buren (b. 1938) uses colour contrasts to create minimal installations, which tend to disorientate whoever happens to walk through them. He likes straight lines, which he paints on large walls, canvas, plexiglas, and various other media. I was lucky enough to visit his show at Centre Pompidou five years ago, and I would recommend to anyone who’s around London to see his new exhibition at Lisson Gallery, May 18-June 23. I’ll definitely go!
[Image via Paris-art, D. Buren, Le Musée qui n’existait pas, Centre Pompidou June-Sept 2002]
A new book on colour published by Pantone will be out February 23. Written by well-known colour consultant Leatrice Eiseman (head of Color Expert) Colour: messages and meanings is a follow up to her previous book Pantone guide to communicating with color (2000). Sounds like a good new entry for my colour library, which is growing steadily. Will post a proper review!
S Y N C H R O M Y by Olivier Ruellet
From 9 - 23 January 2007 on show at Watermans Lower Gallery is second work in series Sense Detectives developed in collaboration with Thames Valley University.
Synchromy is an interactive video installation relying on motion tracking technology to place the spectator at the heart of a creative process: akin to a painting that would react to the level of motion expressed by spectators, Synchromy adapts its own visual dynamics to therhythm shown by the audience, who develops in real-time a pictorial work of which they can start to understand the working and own it by becoming progressively more conscious of their gestures in front of the work, and thus explore new sorts of reaction between motion and image.
Last chance to see Bound for Glory, America in Colour 1939-1943 at the Photographer’s Gallery (until 28 January).
“Taken over sixty years ago, these colour photographs offer a fresh perspective on one of the most important periods of recent photographic and social history. In 1930s & 40s America one third of the population were ‘ill clothed, ill housed and ill-fed’. Until now the grinding poverty of the time has been epitomised by the iconic black and white images of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and others, so these colour images by Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee and Jack Delano have an almost shocking immediacy and freshness bringing to life the human cost of the Depression. During this time, photographers were employed by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) to garner support for President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal by revealing the poverty of primarily rural America. The initial black and white images were intended to educate the wider population about the problem. Then from 1939 colour photographs were taken to show the improvements the New Deal had made, whilst acknowledging that there was still work to be done. These startling images were made possible by the newly developed Kodachrome colour film.” (via Photographer’s Gallery, photo: Russell Lee, 1940, Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico)
Have a look at the history of Kodachrome colour film.
Wallpaper’s February issue is entirely dedicated to the Best Design Awards. Included in the categories there’s the Best Oddity, which was won by ‘Mediterraneo’, a chandelier created by Italian designer/artist Gaetano Pesce for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Nick Compton writes in Wallpaper: “Given Pesce’s long passion for primary colours and wild plasticity, his offering was never going to glow gently into that good night. And so it turned out. At first glance, ‘Mediterraneo’ looks like a rather traditional chandelier. But then it starts to shift, move, breathe, dance, talk and even give off aquatic scents. It has 140 strands, each made up of 87 LED-illuminated Swarovski crystals that change in colour and radiance, and it can be remotely instructed to ebb, flow, glow, bulge and balloon, as you, the entranced viewer, gaze up at the giant jellyfish of your dreams, or nightmares.”
[’Mediterraneo’ as seen at the Crystal Palace show, photos via designboom]
‘Chromophilia’, guest-curated by Dr. Royce Smith, is an homonym exhibition on display at Fisch Haus Studios in Whichita, Kansas. Continue reading ‘Chromophilia in Whichita’
Yves Klein ‘Corps, couleur, immatériel’ exhibition is on display at Centre Pompidou, Paris (October 5 2006 - February 5 2007).
David Batchelor’s Festival Remix: London South Bank Centre is illuminated this Christmas with light displays by British artist David Batchelor.
The Heart Truth: a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease—created and introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease.
Colours are brighter! Released October 16, this album is a mix of great music created appositely for children and performed by Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, The Divine Comedy, Half Man Half Biscuit, etc… Belle&Sebastian curated this group project and all profits are going to the children’s charity, Save the Children. Go Go Ninja Dinosaur!
The Lisson Gallery (London) is hosting new works by Anish Kapoor (13 October-18 November 2006), a must-see for all chromo-freaks out there.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston will be hosting a retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (Dec 10-Apr 1, 2007). Title of the exhibition, The Body of Colour.
For every planned project that is carried out, hundreds of other proposals…
stay unrealised and invisible to the public.
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