Milan, Regine Schumann's solo exhibition focuses on color

From Feb. 2 to March 30, 2021, Milan’s Dep Art Gallery will host about twenty of Regine Schumann ’s acrylic plexiglass works, some of them created especially for the occasion and exclusively for the Milan gallery.

The exhibition, curated by Alberto Zanchetta, is titled Chromasophia, a neologism combining the words Color/Chroma and Wisdom/Sophia: a “wisdom of color” that the artist has matured over the decades with the intention of offering the viewer endless combinatorial possibilities.

For the first time in Italy, the solo show exhibits the artist’s recent Moons series, born out of the expressive urgencies that emerged in the early months of the pandemic. “The series was created in early 2020,” Schumann says, "at a time of limited freedom of movement, at the pace of an unusual slowing of time. At the heart of Moons are the themes of distance and proximity or, rather, there is the unfulfilled desire to move away."

She also presents a work created exclusively for the exhibition, dedicated to the Lombard capital, titled Colormirror Rainbow Satin Orange Milan, and available in a limited edition.

Regine Schumann assembles acrylic plexiglass sheets to achieve a multiplicity of shades, which originate according to the interaction between the foreground, background and perimeter. Depending on spatial and atmospheric conditions, the colors intensify, interpenetrate and reverberate with each other, subjecting the viewer’s gaze to gradual or sudden changes.
Through the use of UV light, the surfaces also reveal latent gradations: the acrylic material seems to dematerialize, while the frosted sheets tend to saturate and numb, thus generating a coloristic blend/synthesis.

“Schumann gives the colors a texture that is identified with the materials,” comments the curator. "It is an ’integrated’ color that is, however, neither immutable nor inert. When subjected to UV, it becomes intangible, as if disembodied from the work; freeing itself from the plexiglass surface, the color floats in space and takes on a ghostly temperature, a luminescence outside the traditional visible spectrum."

With her works, Regine Schumann has been able to invent a fluorescence that transcends the space of experience, projecting us into an experience that lies between natural and artificial reality.

Image: Regine Schumann, Chromasophia (2019)

Milan, Regine Schumann's solo exhibition focuses on color

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