From March 2013 until February 2014 the Mies van der Rohe Haus is presenting a thematic series, consisting of four exhibitions and a symposium. The concept for the whole series has been elaborated by Matthias Bleyl, Michael Fehr and Wita Noack, who are both collectively and individually responsible for the different exhibitions.
As with the whole series, the idea behind the exhibition "Living Grey" is two-fold: on the one hand it is concerned with establishing a criterion for determining a colour value, by means of which the various pictorial concepts, styles and approaches of colour in the field of non-representational painting might be compared; on the other hand the exhibition seeks to gauge the ways in which grey may or can be perceived. In relation to this the exhibition "Living Grey" focusses in particular on painterly grey, that is, the grey that may be “won” from the mixing, painting and over-painting of other colours, and in that sense appear to be their sum or aggregate. The exhibition presents fourteen painterly positions from an international field, representing in the most varied ways the use of gery as a colour.
With works by: Josef Albers (DE/US), Alan Charlton (UK), Hans Jörg Glattfelder (CH), Andrzej Gieraga (PL), James Howell (US), Caro Jost (DE), Arnulf Letto (DE), Dennis Meier (DE), Gerold Miller (DE), Otto Reitsperger (AT), Sibylle Wagner (DE), Peter Weber (DE), Susan York (US)
