Figuring ColorKathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams

Farbe als Ausdrucksmittel für den Körper des Menschen und seine Emotionen

Color is a daily experience, from the colors we wear, to the cars we drive, to the food we eat, to the flags we fly. We use colors to describe our emotions: we feel green with envy, red with anger, or on a sad day, blue. This publication examines the work of four artists who employ color and form to represent a metaphorical body: In Roy McMakin's wood sculpture a chair is at once a body and an implication of an absent body. Kathy Butterly's evocative use of glaze transforms her ceramic sculptures into miniature bodies. In Felix Gonzalez-Torres's sculptures, piles of wrapped candy and plastic-bead curtains are experienced through a literal touch, privileging a sensory experience. Sue Williams' riotously colorful paintings explore an abstracted body represented entirely through color. The publication combines images by the four artists with poems by twenty-two contemporary poets who further explore color through rhythm, meter and rhyme.

Exhibition schedule: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 17May 20, 2012

Auteur
Felix Gonzales-Torres, 1957 geboren in Guaimaro/Kuba, siedelte 1979 nach New York über. Er studierte am Whitney Museum (Independent Study Program) und am Pratt Institut. 1989 bis 1991 war er Mitglied des Künstlerkollektivs "Group Material" sowie 1989 bis 1990 unterrichte er am California of the Arts in Valencia in Kalifornien. Er starb 1996 in Miami.