the colour experiment, 2008 -09
Stine Tranekjær
Series of 7
Size: 100cm x 140cm
Hand printed silkscreen print
Acid neutral 300g paper.
High pigment oil and celluloses colour used
Limited edition: 5 each colour. singned not numbered
- scroll to se all prints closeup
The Colour Experiments are works based on experimental suggestions on colour and light.
Using the referance of the complementary contrast, from the Johannes Itten teachings on colour, The first Colour Experiment states the question:
"Can wrong become right, if alternated and repeated to an adequate extend?"
The first Colour Experiment is 7 silkscreen prints:
By bending and tweaking the lightness and colour, of the contrasts in “wrong” directions, The Colour Experiment searches to explore the space between right and wrong:
Possibly the full image of the 7 prints may consolidate a sense of “the complementary contrast”
- but none of the 7 contrasts alone, resembles a valid complementary contrast on its own.
As an example the red/green center contrast of the experiment, is burdened from vast amounts of yellow, on both the red and the green. One of the two colours should have tilted in another direction, to fullfill the idea of complementary contrast.
