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By Myles Russell-Cook
The colour blue is dominant in the work of Yolŋu artist Dhambit Munuŋggurr, who first discovered the hue in 2005, when she was left wheelchair bound after a car accident. Her installation for the NGV Triennial
Can we all have a happy life?, 2019–20, is generously supported by Orloff Family Charitable Trust.
Perhaps more so than any other colour, blue has fascinated artists, giving it a unique place in the art world. In all human material culture the colour blue is loaded with meaning. During the Renaissance in Italy, painters coveted lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone traded to Europe from Siberia, China, Tibet, Iran and Afghanistan. So desirable and so rare was the blue pigment that many painters reserved it for only the most sacred of subjects – the robes of the Virgin Mary.
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What might be called the Art Fair Industrial Complex has been an ambivalent force on both art markets and art itself in recent years: in one view, fairs offer their attendees chances to see international work they wouldn’t otherwise have access to; in another, the vast mall of it all dulls context into commerce.
Such questions were put on hold with COVID-19 but as signs of life return the Istanbul Design Biennale takes place through May 2021, overlapping with the projected return of Art Basel Hong Kong in March it’s worth thinking about how such massive enterprises use space once it’s safe to inhabit them, and what the ethics of such inhabitation might be.