Collective at the Raquel Arnauld gallery reflects on the matter of color

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Colors that tell stories Color has always been a topic of discussion among thinkers, artists and scholars. Some associate it merely with form. “That’s a limitation,” its defenders would cry out. “Well, color is much more,” they would say. Others even prioritized the format. The truth is that both points of view motivated intellectual debates that helped to construct the history of art. And, through it, artists attracted by the two themes that oscillated between the works of some of their predecessors, based their works on the combination of both. This is what the collective “The Matter of Color” presents, which opens on April 3rd, at 7pm (gallery night), at the Raquel Arnaud gallery (the event takes place parallel to SP-Arte).

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Curated by Frenchman Franck Marlot - tutor of the Picasso family's works -, the exhibition brings together the creations of 13 famous artists (among them, 10 make up the gallery's cast) who made color their fundamental concern: Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Yves Klein, Vincent Beaurin, Waltercio Caldas, Carlos Cruz-Díez, Raúl Díaz Reyes, Carlos Fajardo, Herbert Hamak, Carlos Nunes, Arthur Luiz Piza , Wolfram Ullrich and Renato Bezerra de Mello.

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Visitors will be able to admire, among other works, a wall painted with egg yolks, a facet signed by São Paulo native Carlos Nunes, who has exhibited his work in countries such as Portugal, Argentina, Madrid and Japan. Another wing is reserved for “the man who invented a color”, Yves Klein (1928 - 1962), who received this recognition for his manifesto-work The Blue Earth (1957, which gave rise to the IKB color, patented by him), where he declared that the entire globe was of this same hue, anticipating -to Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968), the first man to travel through space and who would confirm the artist's prediction years later. By the Bauhaus pioneer, the German Josef Albers (1988-1976), two large silkscreen prints entitled Homage are on display Squared. The pieces were born from the research that permeated his entire work and which consisted, according to the curator of the exhibition, among other points, "in the personal experience of what we can feel and the only instrument for measuring color: our eyes”.

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On display until May 27, the exhibition also features many other works by artists who made history and immersions in works previously unseen in Brazil. SERVICE - COLLECTIVE THE MATTER OF COLOR WHERE? 125 - Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo WHEN? From April 3rd to May 27th, 2017 Monday to Friday - 10AM to 7PM Saturday 12PM TO 4PM