Colour Bazaar

Résumé du livre

This 18 page booklet accompanied an exhibition which featured nine paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists, brought together to create a colourful, eclectic and texturally diverse display evoking the visual richness and variety of a bazaar. Featuring an essay by curator Sue Cramer.Colour acts as a spur to the imagination here. As modernist artist Paul Klee said, `Colour is the place where our brain and the Universe meet'. We see vivid pigments applied on canvas or cardboard, the readymade colours of fabrics like dyed hessian, tuille and wool, and coloured materials like adhesive vinyl and metal used to create highly individual and sometimes enigmatic works. Within our notional bazaar, a wide range of cultural and art historical references are invoked, including modernist abstraction and post-minimalism, educational toys and craft-activity, costumes for a theatre of the absurd, Rorschach images, Arabic music and decorative traditions. For all their differences, what the artists share is a spirit of experimentation with the mediums and processes of painting and sculpture.