Clovis Pareiko

Art Brokerage: Clovis Pareiko French Artist: Since the beginning of my career, color has been the major focus of my work. Color is an everyday experience. However, there is something mysterious and transcendent in it. More than the subject of physics or chemistry, color is full of historical, cultural, symbolic and even theological meanings. Colors have a strong personal and emotional side with many social connotations. Unlike in the past, nowadays we live in a very colorful world. When we consider color only from the strict perspective of pigments, beautiful colors have been successfully created for centuries. What I find interesting is that we now have the technological ability to create the most shimmering colors, and yet very few people in a crowd dare to wear anything but tones of gray, black or blue. In general, the dictionary definitions refer to the physical and natural world in order to explain a color beyond the place it occupies in the spectrum, something very scientific for a regular person. Red, as in blood. Blue, as in sky. Green, as in leaf and so on. But what is red? And where is the boundary of orange when it becomes red or yellow? What is magenta? How red could it be? When we look at a marble statue, we know is white, even when we see gray... With my last exhibition I have tried to answer, in a painter's manner, some questions about colors and the perception of colors. Listings wanted.