ART CITIES:Geneva-Chromophobia

Chromophobia manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge color from culture, to devalue color, to diminish its significance, to deny its complexity.-David Batchelor

In his book Chromophobia (2000), Batchelor identifies a widespread suppression of color in Western art and culture, investigating how and why artists, architects, and authors might reject color as a principal strategy or in specific works. The group exhibition “Chromophobia”, is inspired by the writings of artist David Batchelor. Taking his diagnosis as a curatorial conceit, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in which artists eschew color thus emphasizing form, process, and medium. The works in this exhibition are not passively colorless instead they deliberately employ the characteristics of newness, absoluteness, nothingness, and infinity that black and white can convey.

Participating Artists: Davide Balula, Alan Charlton, Dadamaino, Edmund de Waal, Piero Golia, Loris Gréaud, Callum Innes, Wyatt Kahn, Piero Manzoni, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Sterling Ruby, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Turi Simeti, David Smith, Blair Thurman, Rachel Whiteread, and Christopher Wool.

Info: Gagosian Gallery, 19 place de Longemalle, Geneva, Duration: 27/1-27/3/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 11-7, Sat: 12–5, www.gagosian.com