Colour/ Space # 22

Colour/ Space # 22 [version 1,2 & 3]
screen print laminated on an aluminium plate
62 x 94 cm



Colour/ Space # 22

[Study of the appearance of blue-green -and other colours- above the screen printed surface], consists of several screen-printed images.

Color has no fixed location.
Color is immaterial; in its purest form it is energy, a wavelength with its own electro-magnetic field or: light is energy and the phenomenon of color is a product of the interaction between energy and matter.

In creating this work, I focus on a few insight from ‘De la loi du contraste simultané’ by Eugéne Chrevreul 〔1〕.
One of his key insights: side-by-side colors are always subject to each other’s radiation. This reciprocal influence Chevreul called the simultaneous contrast. In this project, I push this to its maximum possibility.

To archieve this, I use the technique of screen printing; partly with fluorescent colors. The underlying architecture of the images are grid lines in order to focus optimally on the appearance of the color, and not the — single — image as a narrative or motive. In this way the ‘readable’ image can disappear to make room for another visual language.

This project also consists of site-specific interventions that further explore visual perception; and where the position of the viewer becomes important when seeing the image.

It is through screen printing and studying color theories that I have come to see and experience color differently; floating on top of the screen printed colors, I literally discovered colors during printing as a phenomenon created by optical color mixing.


〔1〕 Published in 1839; the work of E.C. had a major influence on modern painting in the early 20th century.