Which external factors influence our colour preferences? This show calls attention to the link between external influences and an individual's colour preference, and was inspired by David Batchelor's book of the same name which revealed a bias unique to Western culture: a fear of corruption or contamination through colour. Over centuries, significant voices have ascribed negative characteristics to colours: superficiality, vulgarity, pathology, feminity. This is in sharp contrast to the high-value attributes associated with monochromes: purity, peace, honesty, independance, self-consciousness.

While colours in the natural environment around us help form our colour choices, it's not only our direct surroundings, or the nasty things Le Corbusier once said about colour, that affect our preferences. Recently published research has shown that grey-tinted and monochrome colours are more popular during periods of economic difficulty. Colour trends over the last few decades have traced the rise and fall of optimism, consumer confidence and prosperity.

New works by Tessa Lieffering, Ludmilla van der Spoel and Valerie Zwart examine aesthetic and thematic aspects of monochromes and subdued colour.

Move over 'Wok to Go', 'AH to Go' and 'Snack to Go', here comes 'Fresh Art to Go'! This drawing exhibition set to take place in January, 2012 at TETEM artspace and will feature works on paper by artists from all over the Netherlands. Fresh Art to Go offers viewers the unique opportunity to buy --and immediately walk away with-- a reasonably-priced, original artwork.

For photos of the opening reception, a very short, filmed fragment of the the 'living drawing' dance performance by students of the Stedelijk Lyceum Kottenpark, videoclips by the artists and (very soon) a short text about the show, follow this link.

Kunst as conversation piece
Discover how the art ecosystem in Enschede works and what kind of art the collectors in Enschede have in their collections!