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What colours tell us about...? - Colourpoetry
2024, ongoing
multiple formats
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smallest size: A4 up to individual paintings in acrylic guache
format
multiple word associations, best described as colour poems, exists in English, French and German
abstract
The selection of anagrams of colour names from the general archive is based on surprising and unexpected wordplays, catapulting our understanding of colours into a new imaginary. A field where language, image, and colour coexist beyond their dualisms.
transcoding:
transcoding: colour and language
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text
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history
started in 2023 for the exhibition AXIOM#3, the image of language and the language of image.
The work is part of the general colour archive 'Wortmischungen;
As a stand alone it has not yet been exhibitied.
Many Anagrams of this series have been part of shows:
2025 Remarks on colour, Kbk, Brussels, Belgium
2025 Permanent artwork on the facade of 'Cloudseven, Frédéric Goldschmidt'
2024 painting, writing, ... Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2024 Farben | Fernab, Galerie Valerie Bach La paintoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Axiom#3, Topos, Brussels, Belgium
collection
private collections Brussels and Belgium
artwork by the Belgian art-studio LAb[au] dealing with the transcoding of signs, symboles, codes from one media into another
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