Dead Colors Talk
Huang Ko-Wei
黃可維
Production date
2015
Object Detail
Media
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
pentaptych 170 x 575 cm, 170 x 115 cm each
Notes
Huang Ko-Wei says he wants to ‘wrap and cover the world with the colour spectrum’, from the whitest of whites to the darkest of blacks. He applies lozenge-like dashes of cyan, magenta and yellow as well as red, green and blue as a reference to the CMYK printing process and the RGB colour model. Huang’s primary subject of birds in the forest expand the field of painting and push its traditional boundaries: these aviaries of the imagination are the artist’s way of experimenting with the science of colour. ‘Do we really see the world around us as it is?’ asks Huang. His vivid canvases suggest that perhaps today we visualise everything as a colour reproduction, a simulation of the real.
Accession number
2016.243