All colours permitted as long as they don't interfere with business
Artists taking part in the exhibition:
Jean-Pierre Bredo (Belgium) / Claude Briand-Picard (France) / Jacob Dahlgren (Sweden) / Tina Haase (Germany) / Carole Louis (Belgium) / Antoine Perrot (France) / Trevor Richards (Australia) / Benjamin Sabatie (France) / Roman Signer (Switzerland) / Anu Tuominen (Finland) / Beat Zoderer (Switzerland)
The exhibition is based on the idea of ready-mades, or ready objects of mass production, which are introduced in the new context of exhibition space. The idea of piling up equal objects, which is used by the invited artists, has its origin in the pop-art accumulations characteristic for Arman’s creation. The power of expression of the presented works is contained in the very composition which consists in the repetition of colour and texture modules. The multitude of identical objects is generating the feeling of infoglut breaking the horror vacui (Latin fear of void) which is growing out of the primary need of taming a place and breaking its foreignness by means of marking our own presence.
The way in which artists are juxtaposing the selected objects makes that their sculptures can be read like abstraction painting. Entering a colour which is precisely arranged and determined by geometrical shapes and immobilised on the surface of objects becomes an aesthetic delight, an immersion in the vividness of shades which magnetise the viewer, pushing him/her in the hypnotic state of stupefaction.
Beside the influence of colour in itself, also the taking over of some space or annexing certain area with the presence of multiplied objects is important. These ideas are convergent with the minimalist postulates of entering the surrounding by a sculpture, their mutual penetration, and the lack of clear delimitations.
The original exhibition was organised and shown by the Atelier 340 Muzeum in Brussels.
‘All colours permitted as long as they don't interfere with business’ ‘(…) A didactic dimension will not be absent from this exhibition. It is, above all, a lesson in looking. We no longer think ‘object’. We are...
The exhibition ‘All Colours Are Authorised Unless They Interfere in Commerce’ is asking about the use of colours in producing various functional objects. What are the criteria of selecting colours and how can this selection influence the society? Which colours are ‘advisable’ and which are recommended for particular purposes? How do they shape our visual culture and our everyday environment? How are evolving our colour preferences?
We are interested in colours used in the mass production of various objects. The exhibition shows the output of those artists who do appropriate colour industrial products as the material/matter of their art, carrying them into a different context, namely the art context.
What poetics and what thoughts can be transferred to us by artists in such a functional situation? What is the relation between their works and colourful products of mass production? How can the country of origin of an artist influence the reception of colour?
We decided to organize an international exhibition, since numerous artists from various countries are searching for answers to these questions, creating public works, installations, integrations and objects of their own. The title of the exhibition can suggest one of the possible answers.
Curator: Wodek, Atelier 340 Muzeum
