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One Never Can Tell

Author
Jan Nálevka
Year
2009
Keywords
Technique and size

12 paintings, acrylic paint on canvas

About work

The colour used on the pictures was produced by mixing colours from all tubes of sets of acrylics colours readily available. For each painting there was exactly one set of colours used. Format of each of the painting is derived from format of the box of the set used for the painting. The dimensions of each box are scaled up so that the whole surface of canvas can be covered by exactly one set of colours. Different sets from different producers were used. Each painting is provided by a text that is copy pasted from the box of colours that was used for the particular painting. That way the final hue is practically predetermined by the producer. The result is a "no-colour" in which all entry colours/information mutually fuse as well as neutralize and diminish each other.

Galeria 6, Flow Formula Acrylic, Winsor & Newton, 130x85 cm / Fine Acrylic 10, Artist‘s Acrylic Colour, Lefranc & Bourgeois, 185x80 cm / Louvre 12, Acrilic Studio, Lefranc & Bourgeois, 55x125 cm / Louvre 24, Acrilic Studio, Lefranc & Bourgeois, 110x125 cm / Marie‘s, Acrylic Colour, Shanghai SIIC Marie Painting Materials CO., LTD., 175x70 cm / Van Gogh 8, Acrylic Colours, Talens, 130x85 cm / Acrylic 10, Acrylic Colours, Koh-i-noor Hardmuth, 65x135 cm / Basics 24, Acrylic Color Set, Liquitex, 200x125 cm / Basics 6, Acrylic Color Set, Liquitex, 95x55 cm / High Viscosity 8, Studio Acrylics, Pébéo, 130x75 cm; Starter Set 10, Studio Acrylics, Pébéo, 160x90 cm / Starter Set 20, Studio Acrylics, Pébéo, 160x140 cm

Photo

Photo author: Jan Mahr
Center for Contemporary Arts Prague www.fcca.cz 2006–2024
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