Rush of Colour

 
Colour has always been an essential component of art. In the mid-20th century, painters moved it to centre stage in a new way and focused on colour as a pictorial subject in its own right. Displaying over 80 paintings and prints by artists of American and German colour field painting such as Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Winfred Gaul and Barbara Herbert, the exhibition “Rush of colour” illustrates this development. The selection of works ranges from the first tendencies at the beginning of the 20th century through the core phase in the 1950s and 1960s to current positions that approach the subject. What sensations are triggered by colour? How does it unfold its effect, even beyond the canvas? The show, compiled from the Kemp Collection and supplemented by works from the Kunstpalast collection, provides a comprehensive view of the diversity of colour field painting.

The exhibition comprises some 70 works, drawn primarily from the Kemp Collection Foundation, complemented by additional pieces from the Kunstpalast collection.