(Above) Jim Lambie Zobop (1999). Picture © Jim Lambie
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, May 29 - September 13 2009
Organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Colour Chart arrives at a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic and interior design and fashion, looking at the shifting movement in 20th century art when a group of artists began to perceive colour as readymade rather than as scientific or expressive.
Byron Kim Synecdoche 1991. Picture © courtesy Max Protetch Gallery
The exhibition includes major works from more than 40 artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Yves Klein and Damien Hirst.
Taking the commercial colour chart as a point of departure, it emphasises a radical transformation in the post-war Western art, characterised by the departure from notions such as originality, uniqueness and authenticity.
Midway through the 20th century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colours gave way to an excitement about colour as a mass-produced and standardised product.
On Kawara "Today" series 1966 - 1967. Collection of the Artist, picture © 2009 On Kawara
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