Colourful Black Installation 2017-2020
Colour Catchers NL
cardboard, handcrafted pigment paint, cotton, linen, polyester, wool
A fascination for the colour black plays a crucial role in Hella Jongerius’s oeuvre. Industrial colours are made darker by adding black pigment, but true depth is achieved by mixing complementary colours. The Colour Catchers and Facet Colour Wheels function as objects for the study of colour, shadow, and reflection. Their facets break up a colour into different boxes and thus show the different shades.
They were painted in Colourful Blacks, a series of sixteen shades of black, developed by Jongerius in 2010 without the commonly used carbon pigment. The Evening Textiles show how you can create a wide range of colours and hues using a limited selection of coloured yarns.