A Kind of Bliss - Polly Apfelbaum, Katy Dove, Len Lye, Lily Van Der Stoker
Katherine Stout Helen Legg Kate Macfarlane
Drawing Room, ISBN 9780954266813,
Pb, 24 pgs, 20 x 23cm
Acqn. 34641
In Stock
£5.00
Pb, 24 pgs, 20 x 23cm
Acqn. 34641
In Stock
£5.00
A Kind of Bliss was a group exhibition at Drawing Room celebrating the visceral power of colour, exploring its relationship to drawing in the work of Polly Apfelbaum, Katy Dove, Lily van der Stokker and the twentieth century historic predecessor, Len Lye. This exhibition seeks to question historical debates in which intellectual, moral and aesthetic supremacy is attributed to line over colour.
These artists revel in the use of colour, delighting in its seductive, celebratory and at times chaotic nature. Roland Barthes describes the sensuous, intoxicating power of colour, so feared by its detractors; 'Colour_is a kind of bliss_like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell'. These artists use line and form in harmony with colour rather than in opposition and attempt to marry the formal and conceptual in works that make conspicuous the trace of the artist's hand.