The wait is over. The Breckenridge International Festival of Arts is returning for the first time since 2019. The 10-day festival by Breckenridge Creative Arts happens from Friday, Aug. 12, through Sunday, Aug. 21, and includes multiple.
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