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Many of these works emerge from extensive processes of research and development. These processes often generate extensive series of results that require reproducible material forms—digital prints, photocopies, colour samples, index cards, folders, or other formats. In these formats, the underlying concepts find precise material expression. For some, the edition constitutes the very form through which the work exists.

 

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LAb[au] diptych bleupersan — ultramarinblau, two staggered colour-anagram prints mounted on a white wall.

ultramarinblau

PRINT EDITION

ultramarinblau – bleupersan, diptych
Colour names:
ultramarinblau = LILA + UMBRA NATUR
bleupersan = PRUNE + SABLE
German-French Colour Anagrams
 
LILA
A pale violet named after the lilac flower.
UMBRA NATUR
A warm brown earth pigment derived from naturally occurring iron and manganese oxides.
ULTRAMARINBLAU
An intense deep blue whose name means “beyond the sea,” referring to the distant origin of lapis lazuli.
PRUNE
A dark purple-red named after the colour of a ripe plum.
SABLE
A warm beige-brown derived from the colour of sand.
BLEU PERSAN
A vivid blue with a slight violet undertone, associated with Persian ceramics and architectural ornament.

from the series:
What Colours Tell Us About ...? 

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Only a selection of colour anagrams is presented in the store.
Download the catalogue of available English, French and German anagrams (PDF) →

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  • Edition Details

    Year: 2024
    Size: 2 × 25.5 × 35.5 cm
    Digital print mounted on wood
    Signed, numbered and stamped on the reverse
    Edition of 3 + 1 artist’s proof


    Produced to order
    Available edition: 2/3

  • Description

    ultramarinblau – bleupersan, diptych

    Writing with Colours begins with colour names and treats their letters as chromatic material. In this diptych, LILA + UMBRA NATUR is rearranged into ultramarinblau, while PRUNE + SABLE becomes bleu persan. The colours are not mixed materially: their relationship is produced by language. The resulting hues therefore follow the logic of letters rather than that of pigments.

     

    The two anagrams open parallel chains of association. Lilac and umber—flower and earth—become ultramarine, a blue whose name means “beyond the sea". Plum and sand become Persian blue, a name that carries its own geographical and cultural displacement.

     

    Presented together, the works form a semantic diptych: two blues associated with distance, travel and imagination.

  • Shipping

    This artwork is produced to order. Please allow up to two weeks for production before dispatch. Shipping costs are calculated according to destination. The work is shipped in protective art packaging.

  • Suggested Constellations.

    Writing with Colours can extend across several anagrams:

    melangeront | incomparable
    Together, the works suggest: mélangeront l’incomparable — “they will mix the incomparable.”

    View the suggested edition:
    incomparable — PLACEBO + MARIN

    melangeront | croyance
    View the suggested edition:
    croyance — CYAN + OCRE

     

€800.00Price
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