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Re-view: Ingrid Weber, "Color Circle - XII Tone"


January 22 - March 5, 2022
taguchi fine art, tokyo




































Born in Obermaubach/ Eifel, Germany in 1961, Ingrid Weber now resides and works in Duesseldorf and Duren. She got the Meisterschuerin from Jan Dibbets at the Art Academy in Duesseldorf in 1999 and worked as assistant of Dibbets for several years. Received a scholarship from Ernst Poensgen Foundation and stayed in New York in 2000. She participated in the group show at Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo, "Yellow - Power of the Earth and Light from the Air" in July, 2004 and worked under the Open Studio Program at Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo from October through November, 2004.

Ingrid Weber has been consistently creating monochrome painting which is constructed with a single color pigment or a few limited number of different color pigments. Before she paints, as a preparatory process, she carefully compounds some different colors of pigments. By changing the proportion of each pigment to mix, Weber makes some new color pigments that have slightly different "color-value" from each other. For instance, she makes many different kind of green color pigments, changing the portion of yellow color pigment or blue color pigment, or changing quantities or type of bind materials. Then she chooses some slightly different color-value pigments and paints them on canvases respectively.

In 2008, we exhibited 12 works in different tones on the same format of 37 x 37 cm canvas at our former space in Kayabacho, Nihonbashi. It was the first time for the artist to work with so many different colors at the same time, and the experience of working with a variety of colors deepened her understanding of individual colors and their relationship to each other.

At that time, the installation was divided into two rooms due to our space conditions, but this time we are able to display 12 works in one room, and in a circle. The Òcolor circleÓ is a color theory advocated by J.W. Goethe in the 18th century, and Weber also uses her own original color circle as a criterion for her work, which can be felt through this installation.

This is the seventh solo exhibition by Weber and we hope that both those who have seen the 2008 exhibition and those who are new to these works would enjoy it.

This is the first exhibition of "Re-view", in which we re-examine our exhibitions and the works exhibited in the past 20 years of Taguchi Fine Art.



checklist of the installation


1.
XII Tone, 2008
oil, pigment on canvas
12 pieces, each 37.0 x 37.0 cm

2.
Untitled (cadmium brown), 2003
oil, pigment on canvas
45.0 x 45.0 cm

3.
Untitled (slate), 2001
oil, pigment on canvas
60.9 x 60.9 cm