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Colored

2022
Acrylic on black and white prints on Hahnemühle paper,
dimensions variable










This series reflects on the ideological implications of the use of color through my manual intervention in a selection of works from recent Art History.

Conceptual art, from its beginnings in the 1960s, and in its quest to flee from the autonomous artistic object and the work of art as commodity, took the path of dematerialization. Paradoxically, it became photographic documentation and, in this transubstantiation, it lost its color. These silver gelatin prints have been collected in museums around the world, and the black and white aesthetics – supposedly neutral, objective and serious – inevitably merged with the presuppositions of this movement.

My entry into the path of art was through painting, a practice that I abandoned when I moved to London in my formative years, upon discovering the artistic references that make up this series. In it I propose to retake the brushes through the direct intervention of these images through the subjective process of coloring.



CREDITS:
Installation views and details of Paintings (solo exhibition), The Goma (Madrid, Spain, 2022)

Images © Roberto Ruiz