April Colour News
Colour related news and events in Belgium and around the world
Join us for a free online Q&A talk on Saturday, 10 am CEST, we’ll be happy to answer all your questions regarding our upcoming workshop Colour Stories: Colour Mapping the Living Past.
Join us in Tongeren, the oldest Belgian city, for our upcoming workshop Colour Stories: Colour Mapping the Living Past, on the 27th of April!
Have you ever wondered where certain colour preferences and associations come from and how the past still lives on in the way we communicate?
Let us step into mythology and discover how it still influences our lives today.
Download all the workshop related information as a PDF.
Exhibitions in Belgium
Josef and Anni Albers - Iconic couple of modernism
10 April - 8 September 2024, Villa Empain, Brussels
This is the first exhibition in Belgium of the work of Josef and Anni Albers, two pioneers of modernism who produced pivotal artworks that marked the history of 20th-century art. Featuring some 100 artworks (paintings, assemblages, photographs, graphic works, textiles, films, and furniture) the exhibition retraces the Alberses’ respective artistic careers and sheds light on their close and intimate relationship that allowed them to mutually enrich and empower one another throughout their lives.
The exhibition is held at the Villa Empain, a masterpiece of Brussels Art Deco architecture, built at the beginning of the 1930s by Swiss/Belgian architect Michel Polak.
More information here.
Jef Verheyen — Window on Infinity
23 March - 18 August 2024, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Flemish artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) returns to Antwerp. Forty years after his death, the KMSKA presents the first museum solo exhibition of this illustrious modern master in his hometown.
Window on Infinity closely follows the evolution of his work, in light and dark, in form and colour. New archive research reveals how Verheyen bridges the gap between tradition and innovation, between present and future. In search of the essence, in the infinite.
More information here.
HELL’O ICONS
23 March - 18 May 2024, Galerie Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels
Hell’o is a Belgian artist duo Jérôme Meynen (b 1982) and Antoine Detaille (b 1980).
Their chimerical creatures embody the duality of a society hungry for symbols but in search of deeper meaning. Their protean nature fascinates, destabilises and transports the spectator into an elusive world. They are based on a clever deception, a trompe-l’œil that questions the very essence of contemporary worship.
More information here.
Thomas Devaux - Cet Obscur Objet du Désir
24 April - 27 July 2024, Galerie Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels
In its soaring nave, the Gallery La Patinoire Royale Bach presents a solo exhibition by French artist Thomas Devaux entitled Cet Obscur Objet du Désir (This Obscure Object of Desire). The project centers on three series : The Shoppers, Rayons and Dichroics. In them, the artist questions the new transcendences of the contemporary world.
More information here.
ISCC Webinar with Kai Kupferschmidt
Blue – The Science of Nature’s Rarest Color
23 April 2024, 2:00 PM (US Eastern), online
The color blue has challenged scientists for as long as they have investigated the natural world. From trying to isolate the blue of the cornflower or producing a blue rose to investigating why the word for “blue” appears to come particularly late in most languages: In his talk Kai Kupferschmidt will delve into the history and mysteries of the scientific investigation of how nature makes blue and how humans talk about it.
Kai Kupferschmidt is a science journalist based in Berlin. He has worked as a freelance editor and writer for numerous German newspapers and is a contributing correspondent for Science Magazine. He has written a book called “Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature’s Rarest Color”, that has been translated into several languages. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Media Prize of the German Aids Foundation and the NIHCM Trade Journalism Award (shared with Gretchen Vogel). He is currently an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow focusing on misinformation and still discovering new things about the colour blue.
Register here.
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