Dazzling Juxtaposition
Opening this Sunday at PS Project Space in Amsterdam, “Dazzle Painting” is conceptual artist Bram Faber’s inaugural solo exhibition.
His work is reminiscent of Mondrian, relying on a bold use of primary colors and juxtapositions with texture and form.
Faber’s recent “48 colors” emerged from a mathematical proposition: the six primary colors each appeared a total of 8 times, for 48 different expressive combinations based on variations in the order of the colors of the rainbow.
The new show—a sequel to 48 Colors—references the painting of military fleets with complex patterns of black and white during the first half of the twentieth century. The technique complicated the apprehension of the fleets’ contours, thus providing a kind of camouflage.
Leave a Reply