Frederik De Wilde, Beyond the Liminal: : Ultra Black Art In Dark Times.

[Place of publication not identified] : Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, 2014.

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"From the first human artistic expression in cave paintings until now, black has been constantly reinvented by art. Like other 20th-century artists (Rothko, Malevic, Klein) before him have done, Belgian Frederik De Wilde explores the nature of colors and produces monochromatic works, but focusing on black in a radical and scientific manner. In Hostage, as art historian Elise Aspord explains, he has created a material made up of a vertical alignment of nanotubes of carbon that can absorb almost all rays of light, thus giving a new universal reference for black. This work is the result of a close collaboration between scientists and an artist. It adheres to an aesthetic of the void and raises a paradox, making the darkness visible. Frederik De Wilde and his mysterious nanoblack invite the spectator to feel the "black shock" that is experienced when watching the unknown and the invisible."-- provided by distributor.

Art and technology.
Art et technologie.

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Aspord, Elise, contributor.
Grdina, Sonja, contributor.
Janša, Janez, contributor.
Scott, Eric Dean, contributor.
Umek, Luka, contributor.
Library Stack, supplier.