Armed with brushes and colours, Louis Vuitton brings together artists Sam
Gilliam, Katharina Grosse, Steven Parrino, Megan Roone and Niele Toroni in
an exhibition where colour knows no rules. Escaping the canvas and
crossing spaces,
Fugues in Colour will be on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton until August 29.
The use of and the theory of colour have been studied for centuries. For
Wassily Kandinsky, his synesthesia was an additional character in his
works and what allowed him to play with his paintings as if the colours
were a narrative exercise. For Vincent Van Gogh, colour was what allowed
him to master the madness with which he has been associated throughout
history. For Lady Gaga, they are the materiality of her music. Which is
why it seems logical to us that one of the most creative firms should
devote an entire exhibition to exploring these theories.
The eyes of the United States artists Sam Gilliam and Steven Parrino
together with those of the French-Swiss Niele Toroni are the main guides
to understanding the escapism of colour, as well as presenting for the
first time in France works such as Gilliam's curtains, which hang at the
entrance to the exhibition in no particular order. In juxtaposition is
Parrino's deformed canvases, which question the nature of traditional
pictorial media, while Toroni combines the rigidity and consistency of the
canvas through variations in line.
The exhibition is now on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton on 8 Av.
du Mahatma Gandhi, 75016 Paris (France) until August 29.
