If you ever decide to become a theatrical lighting desigenr or painter or makeup artist, you may at some point coma cross an astonishing book called The Interactions of Color. Written by Josef Albers, the book teaches readers to see colors in an entirely new way. What do the gradtions of shading look like? What do red and blue look like when set down side by side? Albers lays out the interactions of color in a unique way. But even Albers doesn’t quite do what Fred Battle pulls off in his 2019 work, Solara. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:
For his 2019 installation “Solara,” the artist painted the exteriors of 144 dilapidated vehicles from the 60s to 90s with vibrant colors. Hoods, roofs, and trunks shine once again with bold hues corresponding to an RGB color value, their codes written on the bonnet.
“I decided to create this color chart by observing the action of the sun on the horizontal surfaces of these cars,” Battle wrote. “As each of these cars has had its proper life as an object, then applying one specific color on each reveals its singularity, its personal and particular use.”
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