Color Trilogy
In the context of artistic expression, colors act as dynamic language through which emotions, narratives, and experiences are revealed. “Color Trilogy “is a project about the complexity of colors, where blue, red, and white palettes are to be explored. Each palatte is examined separately in a group exhibition with a distinct theme, seeking to arrive at a contemporary interpretation of these colors by choosing the three given palettes and a central narrative.

White Palette
In the history of art, there is a group of fourteen paintings by Francisco Goya known as black paintings, produced probably between 1819 and 1823 in his later years. These pieces depict gruesome themes, reflecting his fear of dementia and his dark view of man and humanity.

With his brush strokes, Goya confronts his viewer with the evil side of the human nature; the very side that brings destruction, mixed up with atrocity. The black paintings are suggestive of fragility of life and rough reality of the world.

In the first series of this Color Trilogy, pieces on the theme of anguish and trauma were demonstrated. The second palette in this series, in a reference to Picasso’s blue period, built a sense of depression in the exhibition setting through application of Persian blue. Eventually, white palette of artists has faded to black in the last exhibition.

And Black is the color you can’t deny, having dotted pages of old history books, dominating the scenes of the news today.

BASIR HOSSEIN BOR