Maruani Mercier presents works celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: Black
Allan McCollum, Three individual «Plaster Surrogates», 1984. Each signed Allan McCollum, dated 10-15-84 (M-15), 20-18-84 (M-18) and 5-19-84 (M-19) and inscribed with respective M numbering on the reverse. Enamel on cast hydrocal plaster in three parts, a) 21,6 x 16,5 x 2 cm b) 15,2 x 12,7 x 2 cm c) 15,2 x 10 x 2,2 cm.
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.- The perception of colours and its use has always been cultural and ideological. A colour is often associated to an economic, political, social, symbolic issue within a specific context. Any history of colours must first be a social history. In this sense, the colour is a fact of society and as for each colour, the nature of black is twofold as it has been developed by the historian Michel Pastoureau in his book Noir: Histoire dune couleur. The black colour sometimes cumulates at the same time pejorative charge and elective value. Over the ce
On a recent afternoon behind a scruffy door in South London, remarkable alchemical transformations were taking place under the watchful eye of the painter Frank Bowling. Wearing industrial masks, a team of assistants brushed and dolloped ammonia, gold powder, acrylic gel and water onto a dripping canvas hung onto Bowling’s studio wall.
Looking dapper in a fedora and a green velvet jacket, the 87-year-old artist directed proceedings from a wheelchair in the center of the room.
“Put gel on the edges of the square. No, you’re putting it on the flat,” Bowling said, guiding the action on the canvas with a laser pointer. “Dust that with the gold. Brush the water all over.”
Spring in Beijing is growing hotter as more and more cultural venues are becoming crowded with art lovers thirsty for exhibitions and other events after China almost wins the war against the COVID-19 pandemic. The upcoming Art Beijing, one of China s biggest art expos will return to the capital from Friday to Monday.
The celebration of nature and beauty in the artworks of Jagoda Lessel (IE)
When one thinks of the tendency of art to reject visible form, one tends to consider this type of expression as an intense manifestation of an inner turmoil, of feelings that press to come out because they have been kept hidden and protected for too long in an intimate world from which they must suddenly and impetuously emerge. The artist I am going to tell you about today, on the other hand, chooses to observe everything around her with a poetic, almost enchanted gaze, and it is of that positive and magical sensation that she narrates in her artworks.