David Egan: Colour Handling - David Egan

Colour Handling comprises a series of essays on colour written from a painter’s perspective. Each essay responds to an occurrence of colour in an artist’s work: Jutta Koether’s red paintings; Rosie Isaac’s green mirror; Tony Conrad’s Yellow Movies; Derek Jarman’s Blue; and Etel Adnan’s paintings of Mount Tamalpais.

The analysis of these works leans on Georges Didi-Huberman’s notion of the patch, a moment in painting when the coloured matter of paint slips away from the logic of pictorial description and performs in some other, strange way. In grappling with this strangeness, the essays in Colour Handling invoke the alien worlds and mechanisms of science-fictionality, making references throughout to writers such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut.

Discipline, 2022
Softcover, 188 pages
108mm× 177mm