WHO'S AFRAID OF COLOR ?
At the beginning of February I saw an installation exhibition at Macval which left me very perplex. ( «Ephermeral installations leave me puzzled» , 1st February). Yesterday, Gianni and I went to see another installation set up at La Maison Rouge «Neon. Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue». Many people are afraid of bright lights. I definitely was not. «The French physicist and chemist Georges Claude developed the first neon tube in 1912, exactly one century ago. He unveiled his invention publicly at the Paris World Fair. A few years later, Claude filed a patent in the United States and, in 1923, sold his first two neon signs - reading ‘Packard’ – to a car dealership. The rest is history…» (David Roseburg: Curator) Neon for me has always meant advertising. Flashing lights. Times Square, Boradway - not to mention long lighting tubes which are in our homes. They seem to make a buzzing sound when they are about to «die» or go on and off in a very irritating manner. Even today, I ca