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.
Installation view, Sarah Sze: Timelapse, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March 31–September 10, 2023.
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Michael Craig-Martin, b.1941
Eye of the Storm, 2003
Eye of the Storm, 2003
During the 1990s the focus of Craig-Martin’s work shifted decisively to painting, and to increasingly complex site-specific wall paintings. Ordinary but carefully selected functional objects are rendered in a flat graphic manner, sharply outlined without tonal variations or surface texture. His paintings are conceptual rather than painterly and gesture is reduced, if not removed. Craig-Martin uses colour as an extension of drawing, using it to distinguish between one object and another, or one part of an object and another. It is used as a way of isolating the parts; their inside and outside and/or the materials they are made from.
Perpetual Nexus: Leonardo Ulian Imbues The Flat - Massimo Carasi Gallery with Technological Spirituality
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