Continental Colors - Carsten Becker & Willem Besselink

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Galerie Vincenz Sala and frontviews present

Carsten Becker & Willem Besselink
CONTINENTAL COLORS

Soft Opening Friday 28 May 2 - 9 pm

28 May - 19 Jun 2021

wed - sat 2 pm - 6 pm
only with actual 24 h negative Covid-Test

Guided Tours with the HAUNT Melodie Team
Fri 28 May at 3pm or 4 pm
Sat 5 Jun at 3pm or 4 pm
Sat 19 Jun at 3pm or 4 pm
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Originally planned as Frontviews’ contribution to B<>LA Connect, an exchange platform for art spaces from Berlin and Los Angeles, Continental Colors premieres on 28 May 2021 at HAUNT in Berlin, before it travels to the creative space Noysky Projects in Los Angeles’s burgeoning Hollywood arts district in 2022.

Becker and Besselink study regulations that determine a large chunk of our daily surroundings: measuring systems, norms, and standards. They are interested in how these systems coincide with each other and how this can form new, derivative systems. In their work as visual artists they visualise these derivatives in various media.

At Continental Colors, Becker presents DIN, his new series of still life photographs, for the first time; a first motif of DIN was very well received as part of Frontview’s limited Edition #5 in December 2020. DIN combines the results of Becker’s lacquer series RAL with a new group of objects underlying the industrial norm DIN. For RAL, started in 2017, Becker extensively researched the use of the RAL colour standard in Germany during the Second World War. Besides his interest in the historical context and its specific connotations, Becker searches for the colours of the Third Reich and questions their specific visual qualities.

Besselink shows several drawings, paintings and installations from his series Romankleuren (Novel Colours). They are based on the quality and quantity of colour definitions in selected contemporary novels. Besselink states that the written word of a colour is imaginary and asks how these imaginary colours could be visualized. The novels read and used for his works in Continental Colors are all written and based in Los Angeles.

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Carsten Becker

Willem Besselink