The
history of art is inseparable from the history of colour and in this
history, blue has always been associated with vastness, ‘blue has
no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions,’ as Yves Klein described.
Ultramarine
blue derives from lapis lazuli, a gemstone that for centuries could
only be found in a single mountain range in Afghanistan. For hundreds
of years, the cost of lapis lazuli rivaled even the price of gold.
Humans
with reduced blue sensitivity have difficulty identifying differences
between blue and yellow, violet and red and blue and green. To these
humans our ecosphere appears as generally red, pink, black, white,
grey and turquoise. Blue appears green and yellow appears violet or
light grey for humans with tritanopia, namely, for those who lack
blue cone cells.
Visual
perception is one of the most important mediums for our acquisition
of knowledge and for our experience of our environment, of the
physical world including our own bodies and others, while, colour is
one of the most dominant components of our perception. Nevertheless,
the physical world and the world of objects do not contain colour and
aren’t coloured as we experience them. Colour isn’t a physical
property of objects, thus, our blood is not red, the sea isn’t
blue, the trees aren’t green…
The
colour appearance of an object can be changed by changing the colour
of light that shines on it and the colour of visible light depends on
its wavelength. White light is composed of all of the colours of the
rainbow, because it contains all wavelengths, and it is described as
polychromatic light. Colour glows with the light of the radiant sun
and creates a relentless spectacle of sheer visibility, of an intense
luminosity that can even be blinding.
Drawing
from our different perceptions of colour, colour vision deficiency
and even “achromatopsia” (total colour blindness), the 40
participating artists of the Group Exhibition will trace the
different interpretations of the notion of colour as sensation,
visual and sensorial experience, psychological property of visual
experiences, mental property, representation and construction of the
brain.
Dimitris
Zouroudis ~ Katerina Zacharopoulou ~ Antonis Tsakiris ~ Adonis
Volanakis ~ Kostis Velonis ~ Filippos Tsitsopoulos ~ Danae Stratou ~
Aggelos Skourtis ~ Christina Sgouromiti ~ George Sampsonidis ~ Nana
Sachini ~ Nikos Navridis ~ Marina Provatidou ~ Artemis Potamianou~
Brigitte Polemis ~ Hara Piperidou ~ Aemilia Papafilippou ~ Antonia
Papatzanaki~ Nikos Papadopoulos
~
Margarita Myrogianni ~ Maro Michalakakos ~ Leon Michail ~ Iliodora
Margellos ~ Christos Kostoulas (Captain) ~ Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos ~
Peggy Kliafa ~ Maria Katrantzi ~ Irini Karayannopoulou ~ Nikos
Kanarelis ~ Sofia Housou ~ Aspassio Haronitaki ~ Cleopatra Haritou ~
Yioula Hadjigeorgiou ~ Kleio Gizeli ~ Maria Georgoula ~ Sandra
Christou ~ Venia Bechraki ~ Rania Bellou ~ Evgenia Apostolou ~ Lydia
Andrioti
Curator:
Sozita Goudouna
Ionian
Parliament ~ Island of Corfu
4-31
July
