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Wortmischungen, colours about colours

2024, ongoing

various paintings, installations and an archive of 300 files
LAb|au], Manuel Abendroth, Jéröme Decock and Thibaut Drouillon

format

the archive colours about colours currently contains 300 files

format

three sub categories are currently undertaken
1: colors about colours (image gallery 1)
2: the archive of monochromes (image gallery 2)
3: monochromatic anagrams (image gallery 3)

history

2024 __ FARBEN | FERNAB, solo show, Galerie la Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels

2024 __ Languages et Imaginaires, Group Show at Gaite Lyrique, Paris

abstract

A selection of anagrams of colour names resulting in colour names creates a new reading of colours and their possible meanings. What is primarily derived from language places colour at the very centre of the artwork, becoming a vehicle for a colour philosophy, where colour is an epistolgy of language.

transcoding:

transcoding: colour and language

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text

When colours tells us something about colours

Anagram: neutral + violett = ultraviolettem
When the 'invisible' alters the visible violet colour but not the colour called neutral, then simple phenomenology of colours makes place to the contemplation of colour language.

Anagram: uran + blei = reinblau
Blei (lead) and Uran are two distinct states of the same metal that both turn black over time. This tendency is also present in pur blue, as in the well-known Yves Klein Blue. In this case, the painting's finality is to turn black, a process brought on by linguistic logic.

mais + altherrenbeige = mariatheresiengelb
Besides the mathematical wonder to find within 33345696384000 possible permutations of the colour names Mais and Altherrenbeige one single result, Mariatheresiengelb, this chain of colour names is full of narratives and historic signification complementing and contradicting the 'interaction of colours' by the one of language.

dyptich: sable + prune = bleupersan | umbranatur + lila = ultramarinblau
A diptych in French and German, both parts are based on two colour names becoming another by permuting their letters. They are aligned on their horizon, putting them into a balancing configuration. But mixing letters is not mixing colours since mixing the colours 'sable' and 'prune' will never produce 'bleupersan'; accordingly, the diptych celebrates colours and their harmonies by opposing them to language.

collection

private collection Belgium

artwork by the Belgian art-studio LAb[au] dealing with the transcoding of signs, symboles, codes from one media into another

LAb[au] is working on the relationship between: architecture & art - language & art, at the crossing of conceptual, concrete, and digital art.

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