© Eduardo Alapont
The cloister’s installation of La Nau under the title ‘The colour game’ will show the colour treatment by the Valencian painter Rafael Armengol in his paintings. From 1967, a year which he started to reproduce their first paintings working on the colour diffraction that are based on the image vision in mass media. This light diffraction has been essential in his work.
The first one who experimented with the light was Issac Newton when he made pass a beam of light through a glass prism. Those light diffraction meant the beginning of an exciting research about the colour nature. The glass diffraction carried out by Newton was the origin of the seven colours that we can observe in the rainbow and according to Newton’s words are called spectrum or iris. This fact are essential to the refraction phenomena, curvature or angle of the different colours when the light passes through the glass. An innovating and exciting concept: the light’s colour, established by Newton.
Subsequently, Thomas Young as well as James Clerk Maxwell are the responsible to connect the colour nature with wave length. Thus, if we start from a largest deviation to a minor ones, we could observe the following pure colours: violet, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange and red. Each colour has a wave length and is bent or refracted at a different angle to the prism. The pure colours are those that emerge from a unique homogeneous or monochromatic white beam of light: we call them pure colours, because if we change the prism, the seven colours result in white light.
Thus, in ‘The game of colour’ will be shown in six large panels of methacrylate, which will be exhibited in the cloister, located between the columns, this range of colours. In this way, the panels will show how different colours can be perceived from different intensities of the three primary colours (green, yellow and blue). In addition to these stained glass windows, two canvases by Armengol will be exhibited on the figure of Joan Lluis Vives, treated following his chromatic method.
At the same time, three large mosaics (3m x 3m) will be exhibited on the first floor of the patio. From the work’s extension of Tiepolo’s work ‘A young with mandolin’ will show the image with different grid’s resolution.
All this installation will encourage the visitor to delve into the nature of color, and to visit the exhibition ‘Tiepolo’s couple’, installed in the Martínez Guerricabeitia room.
