Palettes
March 2009
IBM-PC palette 0 (1981)
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
IBM-PC palette 0 (1981) - Detail
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
IBM-PC palette 1 (1981)
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
IBM-PC palette 0 high-intensity (1981)
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
IBM-PC palette 0 high-intensity (1981) - Detail
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
Commodore64 palette (1984)
Folded papers, 55 x 55 cm
Commodore 64 palette (1984) - Detail
Folded papers, 55 x 55 cm
Amstrad CPC palette (1981)
Folded papers, 50 x 50 cm
Gameboy palette (1989)
Folded papers, 33 x 33 cm
Gameboy palette (1989) - Detail
Folded papers, 33 x 33 cm
Stand of the Duplex gallery, Slick-dessin Art fair in Paris, march 2009
The "palettes" series is made by folding several square sheets of colored paper, without cutting or glueing. It is called modular origami or unit origami. Each paper and its color is chosen in the market in correspondence with color palettes of the early personal computers and video-game consoles during the eighties (IBM, Commodore, Amstrad ou Nintendo). I did not make the colors. These are not applied on a surface. The color is the surface.
