All Colors Permitted As Long As They Don't Interfere With Business The idea for the exhibition All colors permitted as long as they don’t interfere with business originated during a visit to the exhibition La couleur importee (Ready-Made color) at the Passerelle art center in Brest (FR). Two French artists, Claud Briand-Picard and Antoine Perrot, were the curators of this show. It was a very interesting exhibition, situated within a framework of ‘new image-making’, using new technologies and colored, ready-made materials. A very broad-based approach was offered. For this exhibition, I wanted to delve deeper into the subject. I began by looking at the production by private industry, especially the petrochemical industry, of objects- for everyday consumption, as color signals-, and of materials and matter. All of which, taken together, are forming around us a culture of color. I also wanted to explore the manner in which artists procure these objects/subjects and re-locate them into an art context. It is particularly interesting to observe what types of color are used for these objects, depending on country of origin. Appropriated images. The wealth of observation offered by artists working amidst industrial production carries with it a certain critique, a certain trivialization, certainly a sense of humor and employs a minimum of means to achieve a maximum of creativity. Wodek |
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