Monochrom

Despite the opinion of many, the essence of a monochrome doesn’t lie in its monochromness, i.e. in one color scheme, but rather in the fact that monochrome doesn’t represent anything. Or, if you prefer, doesn’t directly represent „anything“. However by not directly representing „anything“, the monochrome automatically refers to „something“. „Nothing“, that is to say, leads to thinking of „something“ by its nature. Our feeling, that somewhere is „nothing“ grows directly from our belief, that there should be „something“. Therefore the exhibition Monocrome offers definition of monochrome as a representation of missing.

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Following this conception monochrome doesn’t has to be exclusively monochromatic, or even doesn’t have to especially be of any color. Any monochrome always rather exists in the sphere of unseen and for its core aspect of missing is of the biggest importance only the negation of previously established form. An ideal example of, in such a way negated form, is therefore its total removal. Monochrom par excellence therefore can be Rauschenberg’s Erased de Konning as much as 4 minutes 33 seconds long silence of John Cage.