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What colours tell us about...? - Colourpoetry
2024, ongoing
multiple formats
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.
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transcoding:
transcoding: colour and language
format
smallest size: A4 up to individual paintings in acrylic guache
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multiple word associations, best described as colour poems, exists in English, French and German
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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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