KARLA KNIGHT —
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Karla Knight's work consists of imaginary language, objects, diagrams, and symbols. It forms a pictorial language of symbol and writing whose underlying system is not known. Simultaneously ancient and futuristic, the work creates an alternative culture which plays with the mystery (and absurdity) of life, and what lies underneath.
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«Коробка со звуком её собственного создания» (Box with the Sound of its Own Making, 1961) 📦
From inside an otherwise ordinary wooden box emerge the occasional sounds of hammering, sawing, and sanding. These sounds form part of a three-and-a-half-hour recording that Morris created while making the very box in front of us. The audio soundtrack reframes our experience of the work, suggesting an ongoing act of labor, which is interrupted only by the necessity to rest or retrieve more supplies. The work is a manifesto of sorts: insofar as it makes evident the means and methods of its own production, it heralded a paradigm shift in art, one in which process, duration, provisionality, and incompletion take pride of place.
Colour experiment no. 121 (Tunnel-vision tomorrow), 2023
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2023
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2023
Photo: Jens Ziehe
In 2009, Olafur Eliasson began a series of circular paintings inspired by the idea of producing a new, comprehensive colour theory that would cover all the visible colours of the spectrum. He first worked with a colour chemist to mix in pigment an approximate tone for each nanometre of visible light, which ranges in frequency from approximately 390 to 700 nanometres. Since those initial experiments, Eliasson has branched out to make a large number of painted works on circular canvases, known collectively as 'the colour experiments'. This particular painting takes the colour wheel idea and adds a literal twist: the prismatic colours spiral clockwise in towards the empty circular core.