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Hella Jongerius www.jongeriuslab.com

Breathing Colour

By 19-09-2017

From Isaac Newton to Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten, the most influential colour theorists have relied on personal experiences. Drawing from decades of her own research, celebrated Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a new series of objects and experiences that inspire us to look more deeply at colour.

‘Breathing Colour‘ is an exhibition that reveals how colour behaves and how it is affected by factors such as shape, texture and light. The way we experience colour depends on the quality of light. However, the quality of light – especially daylight – changes throughout the day. In the exhibition you will move through spaces and see installations that explore the relationship between colour and light at different times of day.

We see the world in a rich mix of colours, but we rarely appreciate how complex they can be. Colours were once produced by mixing pigments into infinite permutations, but now we select them according to a name or code on a chart. Jongerius argues that the processes of industrialisation have narrowed our experiences of colour. This exhibition explores how we can ‘let colours breathe again’ and look at them in a more intimate and personal way.

Exhibition ‘Breathing Colour’
Design Museum, Kensington High Street 224-238, London
until September 24, 2017
www.designmuseum.org

Photos: Luke Hayes