Curriculum Chromæ

“Curriculum Chromæ” is a conceptual unit on color. Coming up with the -æ ending involves a linguistic play which echoes back to the term vitae and represents my long-standing research and reflections on color in this biographical endeavor.

Yellow

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Yellow

  • Dimensions: 200x200cm

  • Year: 2009-2013

  • Skills: Acrylic on canvas, Stainless Steel bars, Plexiglass



Changes aimed at reversing the current scope depend on different variables each time. They cause tension through conflict. They do not calm down. However, they unwind progressively through positively and negatively charged stentorian actions, representing how the opposites coexist regardless of their diversity. They create a movement whose orbit starts an angular course indicative of a novel color realism that unfeignedly flares up because its extent was tamed within a shape. With rationalistic dimensions, the current social fermentations accentuate the dramatizing adaption of the change as it transforms its components to fit into its new frame and, eventually, overturn it. Now, the so far invisible and untold emerge on the yellow surface.



  • The green triangle lighting floods the painting and generates the dilemma: R[G]B or R[Y]B ???