2025
IVORY BLACK, DEEP ORANGE YELLOW – BOOK
Ivory Black, Deep Orange Yellow
Ivory Black, Deep Orange Yellow brings together Carla Klein’s large oil paintings and the analogue photographs she takes and prints herself, which she uses as a starting point for her paintings. They depict a world of industrial sites, desert landscapes and open plains. ‘
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STUDIO VIEW – 2025
In recent years, Murals Inc. has focused within its exhibition policy on artists who (also) work on the street. As a result, the interaction between the established and the street circuit received a new impetus with all the interesting consequences this entails. For the next exhibition Tele Grey Flamingo Pink, Murals Inc. finds it important to make a trip back to its roots. Indeed, we are showing two artists who have never done a mural before but who, given their working methods, will add an adventurous layer and who knows, new direction to their existing oeuvre.
Carla Klein, Nanna van Heest, and Marleen van Wijngaarden each explore perception, structure, and transformation in their work, revealing hidden layers and questioning conventional interpretations. Carla Klein uses photography as a starting point, blurring the lines between digital and analog to push familiar landscapes toward abstraction, creating images that challenge our sense of place and time. Nanna van Heest focuses on the subjective impact of color, investigating how personal memories and associations can enrich and expand established color theories, transforming color into a language of personal and collective storytelling. Marleen van Wijngaarden builds on the concept of the plastic number, using its structured yet flexible proportions to create unexpected patterns that merge architectural precision with the organic flow of visual art.
Their works invite viewers to explore the layered, often hidden relationships between color, form, and structure within an image. By using photography, color experience, and mathematical proportions in unexpected ways, they prompt viewers to reflect on how images are constructed and which meaningful details often escape our notice. In doing so, they offer fresh perspectives for experiencing and questioning the world, where the ordinary can transform into something extraordinary and profound.
In this mural, I have tried to make the white of the wall become a nonplace, a space that is at once (wall) and recedes against the black elements and offers space (distance) to the image.
The black elements come from my negative scanner and are, respectively, anegative strip holder, a large-screen slide/negative holder and a small-screen slide holder. These three holders are all the ones I have with my scanner and thus, in my opinion, represent all the variations to enable capturing the world on image and are on the border between analogue and digital.
As I also photograph and print analogue in the darkroom for my work, for me, these are elements that I still use often and whose underlying meaning and frameworks I find an interesting visual element.
These elements also appear in my latest paintings: I wanted to make the origin and the time part of the complete image by pulling different layers apart and putting them back together again.
I wondered whether these elements with the wall as a boundary could also function as free-standing elements.In the end, I also added elements to involve the whole wall and use the “space behind” as well. I used an orange stripe to cut off the image and at the same time create a hint of a spatial landscape that continues behind the black frames.
I made use of the top concrete beams by making them yellow; a reference to a negative strip, but also with the colour a reference to my masking tape and can therefore be seen as a change of size. The ratio tape and holders is roughly the same as the actual size as well.
In my paintings, I also always like to make use of the material itself, paint, open canvas, edges and cuts created by printing and processing and thus try to shelf a space that is both there and not there at the same time.
Carla Klein