When Colours Find Form. Works from the Collection

How does colour become form? When does a surface begin to breathe, a line to swing, a grid to come alive? The exhibition ‘When Colours Find Form’ is dedicated to the fascinating relationship between colour, form and space – and impressively shows how clarity and reduction can give rise to surprising dynamism.
The exhibition presents selected prints as well as important canvas paintings from the Siegfried and Jutta Weishaupt Collection. All of the participating artists are connected by the question of how colour and form interact, enhance, irritate or calm each other. They work abstractly and non-representatively in order to devote themselves entirely to this investigation and to make the effect of colour and form experiential in its purest form.
Numerous works from the collection that have never been shown before, including works by Geneviève Claisse and Georg Karl Pfahler, open up new and surprising perspectives. With clear geometric circular forms and bright colours, Claisse impressively demonstrates how precise order can give rise to a vibrant, almost musical movement. Pfahler, on the other hand, powerfully juxtaposes fields of colour in his work – decisively and full of energy.
A central point of reference for the exhibition is Josef Albers’ work ‘Interaction of Colour’. It is complemented by extensive portfolios in which his serial work impressively allows visitors to experience the perception of colour as a living, relational event.
‘When Colours Find Form’ invites visitors to take a closer look – and experience how reduction leads to diversity, order to liveliness, and colour to form.

The exhibition features works by artists including Josef Albers, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Geneviève Claisse, Ullrich Erben, Karl Gerstner, Auguste Herbin, Georg Karl Pfahler, Frank Stella, and Victor Vasarely.

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