Chromoscope: A Look at the Color Field Movement
Published in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at la Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine in Paris, Chromoscope: A Look at the Color Field Movement is a bilingual French-English catalogue documenting an installation where twenty-four major works by Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, and Frank Stella were placed within the museum's Gallery of Mural Paintings. This unique venue consists of life-size recreations of medieval chapels and crypts, each adorned with faithful reproductions of 11th–16th century frescoes from sites throughout France.
The catalogue captures the exhibition through extensive installation photography, an essay by curator Matthieu Poirier on how both medieval fresco painters and Color Field artists dissolved pictorial depth, using color to create spatial experiences beyond representation. Placing these mid-century canvases within vaulted medieval architecture reveals the immersive, almost architectural qualities at the heart of Color Field painting.
Published by Yares Art, New York, 2025
Designed by Tim Laun and Natalie Wedeking
Hardcover, fully illustrated, 96 pages