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Book Presentation at Zabriskie Berlin
with: Lucila Kenny and Barbara Collé Friday 17 May 7pmZabriskie, Reichenberger Str. 150, BerlinBook presentation of flower, fruit, leaf, husk and root “They are in a cocoon. A cocoon filled with the blue that is their family. In the air hangs the moment of a story, a big story: the first time Lu made blue…
De tijd van kleur, online gesprek en lezing
Woensdag 17 April 2024 Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale nodigen je van harte uit voor het online lunchevent De tijd van kleur. Roos van Haaften en Barbara Collé gaan met Maurits de Bruijn in gesprek over de tijd van kleur. Woensdag 17 April 202412.00 – 13.00 uurOnline via Zoom Meld je via deze link…
Book Launch: flower, fruit, leaf, husk and root
San Serriffe, Thursday 4th April 20.00 Introduction and conversation with Alex Walker, Lucila Kenny and Barbara ColléSan Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30 Amsterdam It is about a woman who, well into her eighties, still jumped on her bike with a young tree to plant it in good, fertile soil and about another woman who got her…
Essay: Crackling Gum on my Tongue
Crackling Gum on my Tongue is an artist book created by Corine van der Wal and Ide André. The book shows us 60 thrusting scenes in colour, printed with Riso. Corine and Ide asked me to write an accompanying essay to this work: “With the book in my hands, I turn my body to face…
Collective residency at Frans Masereel Centrum
December 2023, Uta Neumann and I were invited to the Frans Masereel Centrum to spend two weeks working nonstop on our project on the Ouroboros. It was a total blast! We completely indulged in all the silkscreen pigments that artists had mixed but not used up in the months before us. We printed, totally and…
Essay: Kleuren bestaan bij de gratie van een moment
Hebben kleuren een tijd? Doen tijdsaanduidingen ertoe in onze kleurervaring? Kunnen kleuren verstrijken of vergaan? Dit essay maakt onderdeel uit van een serie die Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale samenstellen. Elk jaar maken zij een programma rond een bepaald thema. Het huidige thema is tijd. Dit keer hebben we Barbara Collé, kunstenaar en filosoof,…
Artistic research at The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
Embassy of the Free Mind For the long-running project for which we already went to the Kulturbahnhof residency in Brandenburg, and for which we have been invited for an artist residency at The Frans Masereel Centrum later this year, Uta and I now dive into the archives. Between 18 and 25 May, we may browse…
Residency at Frans Masereel Centrum
We have been invited for a residency period at The Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. Residency at Frans Masereel The Frans Masereel Centrum is a center for contemporary art. With an international residency program for artists, often with a specific focus on printed matter-at-large. long-term project Uta and I sent in a proposal following their…
Texts: Als grondbewakers lichtend blauw bruisen en
Last winter, I got to write about the work of artists Renée Pevernagie and Tim Bruggeman. It was such a pleasure to talk about and look at their work with them.The texts became accompanying texts to their joint exhibition ‘Silence at once’ at Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie in Ghent. DUO EXHIBITION ‘Silence at once’Renée Pevernagie…
Essay: Is de wereld kleurlozer geworden?
Ik schreef weer een essay over kleur ervaring voor Mister Motley. Eindelijk kon ik in een stuk iets kwijt over het onderzoek ‘Colourful Blacks’ van Hella Jongerius. En een van de meest poëtische en kleurrijke werken die ik het afgelopen jaar zag, kreeg ook een plekje in dit stuk: The 2nd floor van Vincka Struben:…
Growing Blue – traces of a colour
Lucila Kenny, Naan Rijks and Alex Walker invited me to write a piece for the poetic project Growing Blue. Growing Blue shows a collection of 102 filter papers and cloths that were used as part of the process of extracting indigo pigment from leaves of the Woad (Isatis tinctoria) plant. I met Lucila in 2020,…
Artistic Winter Retreat at KuBa: Kulturbahnhof
kuBa: Kulturbahnhof Brandenburg, near Berlin I’m so excited and so is Uta: we’re going to do another artist residency. This time we are invited to KuBa: Kulturbahnhof. It is about a two hour train journey from Berlin. KuBa:kulturbahnhof is located in the disused train station of the village Klein Warnow in Brandenburg. They have a…
Our work on view at Zabriskie, Berlin
Our Special Edition at Zabriskie We are happy and proud and happy and proud and so proud and happy: our special edition art prints of the Sasso series is now for sale at the most beautiful, interesting and addictive bookstore we know: Zabriskie Buchladen in Berlin. Please have a look at their webshop and if…
Lecture on Colour at Tufts University, Boston
I was invited by artist and teacher Jennifer Schmidt to give a guest lecture. That evening I had the opportunity to talk colours with her class at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. We started with a strong love for Cyan or a very specific longing for Ultramarine blue, preferably…
Tentoonstelling bij NDSM FUSE
NDSM FUSE9 t/m 25 september 2022Tentoonstelling Our Sasso’s travel. They sailed from Lago Maggiore to Het IJ of Amsterdam and can now be seen in the former shipyard in Amsterdam North in the gallery of NDSM FUSE. Much is different here, but the warm, sweltering heat seems to accompany them from place to place. But…
Adviseur Pictura / Dordrecht kleurmeditatie
Op uitnodiging van Marie Claire Gellings, was ik één van de vijf adviseurs voor de experimentele projectweken bij Picture 2022 in Dordrecht. Marie Claire is beeldend kunstenaar, docent aan de Willem de Kooning Academie en dit jaar begeleider van vijf beginnende kunstenaars die de mogelijkheid kregen twee weken lang bij het Teekengenootschap Pictura aan een…
Essay | De stuwende puls van de regenboog
Ik schreef weer een nieuw essay over kleur. Dit keer over de kleuren der kleuren: de regenboog. Ik onderzoek in dit stuk of de kleuren zelf, wat ze ons tonen en hoe we ze interpreteren, iets kunnen toevoegen aan de discussie over de kleuren van de vlag. “De stuwende puls van de regenboog zorgt ervoor…
Sasso is a wishing stone | Residency together with Uta Neumann
Sasso means stone. We didn’t know that when we sent in our book. In our artist book, we printed 24 images of a stone. It wasn’t until four weeks after we were invited that someone told us; ‘Everything is called Sasso there, because that is Italian for stone.’ Uta has been accompanied by stones for…
Celebrate the light | Colour Meditation
Sommer Solstice June 21, 2022 This year, during the day with the almost infinite light, the longest day, I’m staying as an artist in residence at Sasso. Together with Uta Neumann, I invited our fellow artists from the house to celebrate the light. Because when we celebrate light we also celebrate colour, we prepared a…
Artist in residence at Sasso Residency, Switzerland
Barbara Collé & Uta NeumannArtists in Residence, June 2022 Sasso ResidencyVairano, Ticino, Switzerland We are already looking forward to it from the beginning of January: our time at Lago Maggiore. Sasso Residency invited us after we responded to their Open Call. We sent them an artist book printed with Riso. For the prints we used…
Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst
Location:Die Bibliothek Andreas Züst Date:5 – 10 June 2022 Research at Bibliothek Andreas Züst For more than a week, exactly the week before the library closed for a longer period of time, Uta Neumann and I were guests in the Alpenhof and the Bibliothek Andreas Züst. With a research proposal and a pretty solid bibliography,…