Colour Chart:
Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today
29 May – 13 September 2009
Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB, UK
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Colour Chart celebrates a paradox: the beauty that occurs when contemporary artists assign colour decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colours gave way to an excitement about colour as a mass-produced and standardised commercial product.
Colour Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation and offers an alternative survey of mid to late twentieth-century art, emphasising the significance of colour as an indicator of shifting conceptions around art, commodity and creativity. It will also explore ideas of systems and structure, and offer a renewed perspective on the existing aesthetic debates on geometric abstraction, colour-field painting and pop art.
The exhibition was curated by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator Department of Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and includes major works by more than forty artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, Richard Serra, John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, David Batchelor, Damien Hirst, Jim Lambie, Angela Bulloch and Cory Arcangel.
Supported by The European Regional Development fund in the Northwest, with additional support from the American Patrons of Tate, courtesy of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Address Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4BB, UK
Director Christoph Grunenberg
Curators Ann Temkin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Christoph Grunenberg and Sook-Kyung Lee at Tate Liverpool.
Opening Hours – Daily 10.00 – 18.50
