Color Chart : Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today | Moma, N.York
2 March – 12 May, 2008
Jim Lambie
zobop! 1999
Vinyl tape on floor
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Concentrations 47: Jim Lambie,
Dallas Museum of Art, 2005
Ellsworth Kelly
Colors for a Large Wall. 1951
Oil on canvas on sixty-four wood panels
7′ 10 1⁄2″ x 7′ 10 1⁄2″ (240 x 240 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist
Andy Warhol
Do It Yourself (Landscape). 1962
Acrylic, pencil, and Letraset on linen
69 3⁄4 x 54 1⁄8″ (177.2 x 137.5 cm)
Museum Ludwig Cologne. Donation Ludwig
Frank Stella
Gran Cairo. 1962
Alkyd on canvas
85 1⁄4 x 85 1⁄4″ (216.5 x 216.5 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase,
with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of
American Art
Jim Dine
Red Devil Color Chart No. 1. 1963
Oil on canvas
7′ x 60″ (213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection Alice F. and Harris K. Weston
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor
March 2-May 12, 2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the 20th century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a commercial product, mass-produced and standardized. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol’s “I want to be a machine;” the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella’s “Straight out of the can; it can’t get better than that.” Color Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, and will feature work by 44 artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst. Organized by Ann Temkin, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
The exhibition is supported by Benjamin Moore Paints. Additional generous funding is provided by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
images are taken from the book that will be Published in conjunction with the exhibition Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, organized by Ann Temkin at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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My name is Roberto Scafidi, artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina.I
was shocked and amazed when a student in my class showed me a
photograph of the MoMAs floor by this Jim Lambie, its a total rip off
my work. Im working in this line since 1993, there are many
catalogues and books in the National Museum of Fine Arts in
Buenos Aires that can prove what im saying. You can check some of
my work at http://www.arssummum.net , a art history site from Spain ,
write my last name in the ” busqueda” case and you could see. Its
not “quite like it” its a detail of one of my works, every and each
color, the composition, etc. I cant believe the lack of ethics of this
guy,but … Mark Harden of the Artchive knows my work since 2006,
and many other people in the U.S, and Europe.Got some coleector in
Paris, Munich, Italy and Spain, besides Latin America. Please check
what Im saying, you will see its true. I´ve been awarded some times,
by the French Embassy in 1991´92, lived in Paris in The cité
Internationale des Arts. I´m not saying this out of vanity, but to
remark that I have many years working behind me , and many
people know my work, and coldnt believe when they saw this
plagiarization. I hope you can spread this news for the truths sake.
My mail is
scafidiroberto@yahoo.com.ar.
Thank you very much
Dearest Roberto,
This is totally unfair to you.
I feel your influence on contemporary art
doesnt just stop at this guy,
I have found others who are ripping you off!
(yes!)
Please please please check out these artists also.
They are all out there stealing your idea!
One is this guy calling himself Albers. not very interesting work.
Another is a woman, I think. Goes by the name of Riley. A lot of it is in black and white, but it is so obvious she has trawled the internet and found your work and adapted it to her own paintings.
Also there are many many more…..
people like a guy calling himself Farnk Stella, (sounds like made-up name to me)
and the list goes on and on and on.
I do feel bad for you having suxh a great idea and then people(if we can call them that) taking that great idea and making believe that it was theirs.
After all Roberto, You are the guy who invented the stripe on canves and not only that, you took it one stage futher, like magic, and put it in a box.
These people should be ashamed of themselves,
but remember who your real friends are Roberto.
They would never do this to you Roberto,
NEVER.
You invented the stripe did you Roberto? Gee you must get pissed off at rainbows