Martin Firrell
White Is a Desolation,
a Non-State
Like a Blank Mind
2021
Die Chromatika is a new psychological theory of colour for the 21st Century, created by the artist in response to Goethe's 'Theory of Colours' and Rudolf Steiner's writings on colour.
Of white the artist wrote: When I think of white, I imagine a landscape under a perfect covering of snow. Everything is white, dazzling, turned into a cold blank desert.
Under these conditions, white is not a colour at all, but a blinding nothing, an absence, an empty mind.
Displayed
Switzerland, March 2021
Thanks to
Kirsten Behle, Ursulina Stecher
Supported by
Clear Channel Schweiz