Author: KARASIK, MIKHAIL. Stommels, Serge-Aljosja & Albert Lemmens. (eds).
Title: Mikhail Karasik. Colour is optics.
Description: [Eindhoven], Van Abbemuseum, 2015. 89 pp. Num ills (chiefly col.). Orig. hardcover (boards). Large 8vo. This book published in conjunction with the exhibition, presented at the Library of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2 June - 25 September 2015. Compiled and edited by Serge-Aljosja Stommels and Albert Lemmens. Design by Mikhail Karasik. Text in English.- - The Russian artist Mikhail Karasik (born 1953) specialises in graphics, in particular, art books of lithographs. A series of graphic works was used as the starting point for this library exhibition, which he made in response to a manual on colour theory by Mikhail Matyushin, Spravotsjnik po tsvetoe (Reference on Color), which was published in 1932. These lithographs were supplemented with other manuals about colour by Josef Albers, Paul Schuitema and Jasper Johns, amongst others. In this way the exhibition provides a summary of the theme of colour in the twentieth-century history of art. All the works come from the LS collection and the library collection of the Van Abbemuseum.

Keywords: Modern Art Russia Moderne kunst Rusland