Tuesday, 18. March 2008
Topic: ART - on March 18, 2008 at 2:46:00 PM CET
Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today
This exhibition takes as its point of departure the commercial color chart, an item that openly declares the status of color as mass-produced and standardized. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual or emotional power of particular colors gave way to the embrace of color as an ordinary commodity. At the same time, many artists rejected traditional artistic pedagogy about correct relationships and instead adopted aesthetic approaches that relied on chance, ready-made sources, or arbitrary systems...This exhibition features the work of forty-four artists who take a position in which art and life mingle rather than remain separate, and where beauty is found in the everyday rather than in the ideal.
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