The colour circle series
Olafur Eliasson’s The colour circle series consists of three parts, each of which comprises three prints.
The constant colour circle is based on the three primary colours red, blue and yellow. It is the base for the colour mixtures in the other eight works of the series. For The double constant colour circle, Eliasson mixed opposing colours, and for The triple constant colour circle, he repeated this process a second time. The second part of the series is an investigation of the three primary colours themselves, while The colour circle series Part III consists of a black, grey and white colour circle.
The depiction of a colour wheel evokes associations of objective scientific research – the chromatics studies of Sir Isaac Newton or Johann Wolfgang Goethe may come to mind. But as a matter of fact, Eliasson’s The colour circle series is the product of artistic decisions regarding the shades of the represented colours, the design, the length and width of the individual colour fields, or the distance between them. What presents itself as an image of scientific authority is indeed the result of a series of utterly personal choices, as individual as the artist’s fingerprint.
The double constant colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 170 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 08 002-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The constant colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 168 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 08 001-1
- Printer
- Printed by Mette Ulstrup, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The triple constant colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 168 x 178 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 08 003-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The yellow colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 171 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 001-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The red colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 171 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 002-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The blue colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 170 x 176 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 003-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The white colour circle part of The colour circle series – Part 3, 2008
Price on requestOlafur Eliasson’s The colour circle series consists of three parts, each of which comprises three prints.
The constant colour circle is based on the three primary colours red, blue and yellow. It is the base for the colour mixtures in the other eight works of the series. For The double constant colour circle, Eliasson mixed opposing colours, and for The triple constant colour circle, he repeated this process a second time. The second part of the series is an investigation of the three primary colours themselves, while The colour circle series Part III consists of a black, grey and white colour circle.
The depiction of a colour wheel evokes associations of objective scientific research – the chromatics studies of Sir Isaac Newton or Johann Wolfgang Goethe may come to mind. But as a matter of fact, Eliasson’s Colour circle series is the product of artistic decisions regarding the shades of the represented colours, the design, the length and width of the individual colour fields, or the distance between them. What presents itself as an image of scientific authority is indeed the result of a series of utterly personal choices, as individual as the artist’s fingerprint.
- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 171 x 174 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 004-1
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The grey colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 170 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 005-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The black colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 171 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 09 006-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist
The double constant colour circle, 2008
Price on request- Print technique
- Photogravure
- Paper
- Somerset White Satin 300g
- Dimensions
- Paper size 170 x 175 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 24
- Registration no
- OlE 08 002-1
- Printer
- Printed by Julie Dam, Valeria Borsotti
- Publisher
- Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed and numbered by the artist