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2020
Digital posters
6 of 7 from
die chromatika/the chromatika
1080 x 1920px jpeg
RGB colour as black and white
July 2020
Zurich and Basel, Switzerland
Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, ‘There is no orange without blue.’
Goethe hinted at the ill-defined relationship between red, yellow and orange, writing, ‘If we fill a white porcelain cup with a pure yellow liquor, the fluid will appear to become gradually redder towards the bottom, and at last appears orange.’
The French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) invited us to imagine that orange is the only colour in the world. If we could enter imaginatively and wholeheartedly into orange, if we could sympathise with it completely, we would grasp the truth that we are experiencing a different kind of reality somewhere ‘between red and yellow’.
Safety Orange/Leuchtorange
double-page spread from the artist's book
Die Chromatika/The Chromatika,
2021.
Imagine a darker and darker orange until you have red, imagine a lighter and lighter orange until you have yellow - it's possible to do this even if you had never seen red or yellow before. Orange points to this possibility of intuiting other realities, hidden to ordinary ways of seeing.
Stellen Sie sich ein immer dunkler werdendes Orange vor, bis Sie Rot haben, stellen Sie sich ein immer heller werdendes Orange vor, bis Sie Gelb haben - das ist möglich, auch wenn Sie noch nie zuvor Rot oder Gelb gesehen haben. Der französische Philosoph Henri Bergson beschrieb Orange als den Eindruck, ‘zwischen Rot und Gelb gefangen zu sein’. Orange ermöglicht es, intuitiv Realitäten zu erfassen, die sich hinter unseren Sehgewohnheiten verbergen.
