LA TERRE EST BLEUE COMME UNE ORANGE
Soufiane Ababri, Pierre Ardouvin
Pauline Bazignan, Matthew Brandt
Jim Isermann, Dan Levenson
Maude Maris, Golnaz Payani
Christine Safa, Marnie Weber
Brian Wills, Guy Yanai

Paris
5 December 2020 – 6 February 2021




Praz-Delavallade wanted to end 2020 on a more hopeful note with a group exhibition that invokes colour in all its forms and whose guest artists feel and see the world so keenly that colour is empowered.

Although the theme is apparently simple, when you set out to address this subject you are confronted with the ambiguous nature of the very notion of colour. Colour provides information that helps us understand the world all around us and at the same time “colours” our experience of it. In other words, colour is informative and yet it provides a subjective experience and therein lies the complexity of the question.
 
 

Soufiane Ababri
Bedwork, 2019
Color pencil on paper
27 3/4 x 27 9/16 in
(70,5 x 70 cm)
SA19D9

3,500 € excl. taxes, framed

Soufiane Ababri
Bedwork, 2019
Color pencil on paper
27 9/16 x 27 9/16 in
(70 x 70 cm)
SA19D8

3,500 € excl. taxes, framed

 
The first thought that comes to mind is that perception of colour is influenced by the filter that each individual applies to what they see, and that colour is therefore a very personal matter. After all, we don’t all perceive colour in the same way – an observation that is not just limited to colour blind people. Throughout the history of philosophy, from Aristotle and Descartes to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, colour has always been at the centre of reflections on art. The resulting consensus established a marked difference between an object’s main attributes (its intrinsic properties) and its secondary and purely subjective qualities, which include colour. It is nevertheless possible to move beyond this opposition between objective and subjective colour, according to which the human eye perceives colour at the moment when one’s gaze encounters an object.
 

Pierre Ardouvin
Fleurs 5, 2019
Print on canvas, resin, glitter
78 3/4 x 54 11/32 in
(200 x 138 cm)
PA19P5

17,000 € excl. taxes, framed

 

Pauline Bazignan
28.08.2020, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, dyptich
100 x 120 cm
(39 3/8 x 47 1/4 in)
PB20P2

4,000 € excl. taxes

Pauline Bazignan
23.08.2020, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
11 13/16 x 11 13/16 in
(30 x 30 cm)
PB20P3

1,200 € excl. taxes

Pauline Bazignan
24.08.2020, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
11 13/16 x 11 13/16 in
(30 x 30 cm)
PB20P4

1,200 € excl. taxes

 
“Colour is a world in its own right [...] because it possesses depth, vibration and radiance, a rhythm and a way of addressing our emotions, and because it communicates with other means of perception, it is a property that is always whole”.

Claude Romano, De la couleur, 2010
 
 

Matthew Brandt
Burnout RT01F, 2014
2 tone silk velvet with acid treatment
54 11/32 x 42 17/32 in
(138 x 108 cm)
MBR14P3

16,000 $ excl. taxes, framed

 

Jim Isermann
Untitled (hole painting) (0388), 1988
Enamel paint on wood
48 x 48 x 2 in
(121,92 x 121,92 x 5,08 cm)
JI88P1

30,000 $ excl. taxes

 

Dan Levenson
Hanni Reiff, 2018
Oil on linen
46 27/32 x 33 1/16 in
(119 x 84 cm)
DL18P3

9,000 $ excl. taxes

 

Dan Levenson
SKZ Student Painting Storage Box Number 964, 2018
Paint on plywood, 8 oils on linen
19 11/16 x 9 27/32 x 14 3/16 in
(50 x 25 x 36 cm)
DL18P5I

24,000 $ excl. taxes

 
Throughout the history of contemporary art, colour has been an adventure which, from Malevich’s white square to Rothko’s fields of solid colour and from Shigeru Ban’s white roof design for Centre Pompidou Metz to Pierre Soulages going “beyond black” with his outrenoir, not forgetting International Klein Blue, has played a part in establishing artists’ identities. And today is no exception. “This insatiable thirst for colour is a basic need, colour is a vital necessity, a raw material that is just as indispensable to life itself as water and fire”, Fernand Léger declared. Colour is used to project subjectivity and thereby give rise to an emotional reaction in the viewer, however in so doing it tends to deform reality. Each and every one of us has to find our own truth, one that will enable us to truly see in technicolour – after all, as Paul Eluard liked to remind his contemporaries: “The earth is blue like an orange”.
 
 

Golnaz Payani
Débris avec du jaune, 2020
Wool and linen
57 3/32 x 43 5/16 in
(145 x 110 cm)
GP20MM1

6,600 € excl. taxes

Golnaz Payani
Noir sur doré, 2020
Wool and linen
10 5/8 x 7 15/32 in
(27 x 19 cm)
GP20MM2

750 € excl. taxes

Golnaz Payani
Bleu sur beige, 2020
Wool and linen
14 9/16 x 7 15/32 in
(37 x 19 cm) 
GP20MM4

750 € excl. taxes

 

Christine Safa
Corps allongé, 2020
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 28 3/4 in
(100 x 73 cm)
CS20P4

3,300 € excl. taxes

 

Christine Safa
Visage couché II, 2020
Oil on canvas
8 21/32 x 5 1/2 in
(22 x 14 cm)
CS20P5

900 € excl. taxes

 
 

Marnie Weber
Winter Wonderland, 2013
Collage and acrylic paint on panel
66 x 36 x 2 1/2 in
(167,64 x 91,44 x 6,35 cm)
MW13P2

12,000 $ excl. taxes

 

Brian Wills
Untitled (triptych spectrum on walnut), 2020
Single-strand thread on walnut, tryptich
11 13/16 x 50 13/32 x 2 in
(30 x 128 x 5 cm) 
BW20P11

12,000 $ excl. taxes

 
 

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