André Lemonnier — Gamme de Couleur, Paris Museum

5 October 2017 · Paris

André Lemonnier's Gamme de couleur 1 (1997) hangs against a white gallery wall in Paris — a tall black-framed print mapping the full colour spectrum through a radiating wheel at the top and three descending grid charts below. The work is systematic where it could be decorative, and expressive where it could be purely technical. Each coloured square sits in exact relation to its neighbours, the whole diagram reading as both scientific instrument and finished artwork.