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Just over 270 years ago, a book was not only written about the use of color in painting, but also the first copy that, on its pages, explained how to create certain tones and change others by adding one, two, or three parts of water, demonstrating that there was chromatic life before Pantone.

 

Exactly in 1962, before Lawrence Herbert – founder of Pantone – created an innovative system to identify, match, and communicate colors, the artist A. Boogert mixed and defined colors in a handwritten book entitled “Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau”.

 

Throughout its 700 pages, A. Boogert provided the necessary pigment and water ratios to create each color with its tones and hues. To illustrate his explanations, he colored each page with the colors he mentioned. The result was a splendid, fairly comprehensive color guide that, had only one copy not been made, would have served as an indispensable tool for many artists in the 17th century, the Golden Age of Dutch painting.

 

As an ode to Pantone and the first essential color guide for the universe of creativity and design, Galería Azur Madrid presents a selection of images that weave together ideas, precepts, representations, and beliefs of artistic practices linked to color. This exquisite fusion of works transports us to the most remote origins of color, focusing on the purest pigments, the incidence of light and shadow on them, the texture with its curves, undulations, and lines, and the incorporated elements that, in a vibrant plot, simultaneously unite avant-garde works of art.

 

Starting from a “PANTONE” chromatic development, the curatorial proposal aims to convert light and color into a representative experience of the current era, which has transcended centuries to remain a fundamental tool in contemporary times.

Ceres González

Ceres González

Art Curator and Art Critic. GALERIA AZUR

PHYSICAL & ONLINE EXHIBITION
FEATURED ARTISTS

Pedro Sousa Luro (PORTUGAL)
Lydia Anoz (SPAIN)
Adebgboro Blessing (NIGERIA)
Olga Artjomova (LATVIA)
Sandi Beange (CANADA)
Claudia Benavente (CHILE)
Jose Antonio Tejedor (SPAIN)
Antonio Bettuelli (ITALY)
Craig Boretz (USA)
Ben Browton (UK)
Linda Achar Cohen (MEXICO)
Lee Heesung (SOUTH KOREA)
Anna Fryszkowska (POLAND)
Bozena Jastrzebska (POLAND)
Jason Lincoln Jeffers (USA)
Mark Lesser (USA)
Julia Moniewski (SWITZERLAND)
Mayoly Ruiz Rocha (SINGAPORE)
Mariola Wroblewski (SPAIN)
Heesung Lee (South Korea)
Silvia Goytia (ARGENTINA)
Mariele Orr (CANADA)]
Gabriel Lass (SPAIN)

Artworks

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JUST MAD

JUST MAD

FROM MARCH 7 TO MARCH 10/2024

CONSEQUENCES

CONSEQUENCES

FROM FEB 29 TO MARCH 28/2024

HYBRID

HYBRID

FROM MARCH 7 TO MARCH 10/2024

ALTERED LANDSCAPES

ALTERED LANDSCAPES

FROM JAN 11 TO FEB 11/2024

THINK CONTEMPO

THINK CONTEMPO

FROM OCT 28 TO NOV 27/2023

MAPPING

MAPPING

FROM SEPT 28 TO OCT 27

DISLOCATIONS

DISLOCATIONS

FROM AUG 17 TO SEPT 16 /2023

POINT OF VIEW

POINT OF VIEW

FROM jULY 7 TO AUGUST 5/2023

NEW DIMENSIONS

NEW DIMENSIONS

FROM 25/5 TO 24/6 2023

PANTONE

PANTONE

FROM APR 20 TO MAY 19/2023