Blaues

Blue is a deep colour. It surrounds us in the sky and the ocean. As diverse as the etymology of the word “blue”, as numerous are the findings collected in this blue-tinged book.

“Blaues” approaches a colour, often by withdrawing itself from it. It traces its paths and detours, its vague identities. We encounter blue in the shape of language, memory, sense, images. Documents, ideas and tales lead us further (and) away: Wandering as methodology.

Beginning with the sensory experience of colour, the contributions in this book solidify the idea of colour as an idea. They turn “Blaues” into more than a merely colourful, mani-blue album. They introduce us to a colour that can act as a ground, an artefact, a compass. Blue is a starting point, an actress, a directress. It flees and it stays, it comes near, it condenses, soon muggy and yet always out of reach. In the end: no traces of any/more glorification. Text: Anna Hack

150 × 215 mm
128 Pages
Digital (HP Indigo) and Screen Printing
Thread-stitched
Bound in book linen, C-print attached to the cover
20 Copies

The texts “Am Himmel nichts Blaues” [Nothing Blue In The Sky] by Vera Heinemann and “Farbe ohne Körper” [Body Without Colour] by Matthias Seier have first been published in this book. The 36-part photo series “Nora” has been created by Jannis Uffrecht in close collaboration with me. The preface was written by Anna Hack.

Publishing this book was only possible thanks to the generous support from its readers. “Blaues” is the second, entirely reworked and redesigned edition of the book “Blaue Stunden” which was part of the graduation project “Die blaue Bibliothek” [The Blue Library].

Autumn 2019

Blaues

Blaues

Blue is a deep colour. It surrounds us in the sky and the ocean. As diverse as the etymology of the word “blue”, as numerous are the findings collected in this blue-tinged book.

“Blaues” approaches a colour, often by withdrawing itself from it. It traces its paths and detours, its vague identities. We encounter blue in the shape of language, memory, sense, images. Documents, ideas and tales lead us further (and) away: Wandering as methodology.

Beginning with the sensory experience of colour, the contributions in this book solidify the idea of colour as an idea. They turn “Blaues” into more than a merely colourful, mani-blue album. They introduce us to a colour that can act as a ground, an artefact, a compass. Blue is a starting point, an actress, a directress. It flees and it stays, it comes near, it condenses, soon muggy and yet always out of reach. In the end: no traces of any/more glorification. Text: Anna Hack

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150 × 215 mm
128 Pages
Digital (HP Indigo) and Screen Printing
Thread-stitched
Bound in book linen, C-print attached to the cover
20 Copies

The texts “Am Himmel nichts Blaues” [Nothing Blue In The Sky] by Vera Heinemann and “Farbe ohne Körper” [Body Without Colour] by Matthias Seier have first been published in this book. The 36-part photo series “Nora” has been created by Jannis Uffrecht in close collaboration with me. The preface was written by Anna Hack.

Publishing this book was only possible thanks to the generous support from its readers. “Blaues” is the second, entirely reworked and redesigned edition of the book “Blaue Stunden” which was part of the graduation project “Die blaue Bibliothek” [The Blue Library].

Autumn 2019