Monochromy. About the aesthetics of published art

Bernard Villers

How versatile is monochromy? How colorful is a single tone? Whether in red, blue, green, white or black: Monochrome works exist in all colors and non-colors. Monochromy. On the Aesthetics of Published Art presents various expressions of the contemporary artistic investigations of color.

Ever since the 1950s, conceptions with completely monochrome surfaces have arisen in the context of artists’ publications with the goal of achieving the highest possible degree of simplification and concentration. On display in the exhibition are works by more than sixty artists who thematize the different aspects of monochromy and its meaning for art. The artists focus on aspects of absolute abstraction, emotions, color and emptiness, all the way to the philosophical and religious concept of nothingness. Monochromy is presented in the form of prints, artist’s books and periodicals, objects and paintings as well as in the context of Sound Art.

Artists: Rozbeh Asmani, Robert Barry, Eric Baskauskas, Pierre Bismuth, Irma Blank, Doro Boehme, Christian Boltanski, Hugo Bonamin, Stanley Brouwn, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Leif Eriksson, Joseph Ernst, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Irene Friedman, Heinz Gappmayr, Michael Gibbs, Mathias Goeritz, Fernanda Gomes, Daniel Göttin, Nan Groot Antink, Kristján Guðmundsson, Paul Heimbach, Parker Ito, Jean Keller, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Ferdinand Kriwet, Jean Le Noble, Sol LeWitt, Sergio Pesutic, George Maciunas, George Meertens, Felix Meyer, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Olaf Nicolai, Jean- Michel Othoniel, Pratchaya Phinthong, Ad Reinhardt, Boyd Rice, Winston Roeth, Allen Ruppersberg, Karin Sander, Conrad Schnitzler, Yann Sérandour, Ettore Spalletti, Diana Sprenger, Endre Tót, Jiří Valoch, Bernard Villers, Jan Voss, herman de vries, Peter Willen, Euan Williams, Ian Wilson and others.

Curated by Anne Thurmann-Jajes.

Opening Friday 06.09.24 at 7pm
Tuesdays to Sundays, 11am> 6pm
until Sunday 28.09.25

Location
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst
Teerhof 20
Bremen (DE)