by Suomen väriyhdistys | Mar 21, 2016 | News
Deputy member of FCA board Ilona Huolman, President of FCA Sini Vihma and Carolus Enckell at the award ceremony which was held in the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland.
After the award ceremony Carolus Enckell spoke about his art and guided the audience through his retrospective exhibition.
Painter Carolus Enckell was recognised for his life-long work with colour
The Finnish Colour Association celebrated AIC’s International Colour Day by awarding ithe Iiris Prize to the painter Carolus Enckell for his profound and lifelong investigative, creative and pedagogic work with colour. Enckell received the award amidst his retrospective exhibition, ongoing until 15th May 2016 in the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
In Caolus Enckell’s art a personal and experience-based relationship to colour has continued throughout his decades-long career. He has investigated and used colour in his work from diverse viewpoints: as a perceptual and sensory experience as well as a mythical and symbolic phenomenon. Through his teaching work Enckell has disseminated knowledge and awareness of colour to students of art ever since the 1970s. The Free Art School (Vapaa taidekoulu) published a Finnish translation of Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color in 1978 and Carolus Enckell was a member of the edition’s editorial board. During Enckell’s terms as rector and professor in the Free Art School Albers’s pedagogical method was applied to the school’s colour teaching, and Albers’s method is still used widely in colour teaching in art and design schools throughout Finland.
Carolus Enckell: Hon, 2010, gouache on paper, 30 x 19 cm, Photo: Patrik Rastenberg © Galerie Forsblom
CAROLUS ENCKELL
Carolus Enckell (born 1945) is an internationally recognised Finnish painter. Enckell studied in the Free Art School (Vapaa taidekoulu) in Helsinki, Finland during 1966–69. He has held one-man shows in Finland and abroad since 1973, among other places at Galerie Artek, Galerie Forsblom, the Helsinki Kunsthalle and the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York.
He has also participated in several group shows in Nordic Museums and he is represented in the collections of numerous foundations and museums in the Nordic countries. Enckell has also created several public artworks in Finland and Sweden, among them murals for the Finnish Embassy in Stockholm and for Jyväskylä University in Finland as well as altarpieces and stained glass windows for Finnish churches. He has received several prizes and awards, including the Pro Finlandia medal in 2009 and the Carnegie Art Award in 2001. Enckell has forged an important career as an art pedagogue in the Free Art School in Helsinki during 1970–84, acting as its rector during 1988–95. He has taught also at the Art Academy in Oslo during 1983–85, The Gothenburg Art University during 1986–91 and the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm during 1996–97. Enckell was editor-in-chief of the Finnish Taide art magazine during 1984–1990.
Carolus Enckell kuva: © Jussi Tiainen
THE IIRIS PRIZE
The Finnish Colour Association’s Iiris Prize can be given to a work or deed involving colour that has noticeably improved aesthetic appreciation, functionality or safety in people’s environment and daily life. The work can involve fine art, design, architecture or environmental design or for example colour technologies such as the printing industry.
Links:
http://www.tampere.fi/english/sarahilden.html
by Suomen väriyhdistys | Dec 17, 2015 | News
AIC2016 Interim Meeting
Color in Urban Life: Images, Objects and Spaces
18th – 21st of October 2016, Santiago de Chile
www.aic2016.org
This is a remider that the Call for Papers of the AIC2016 Interim Meeting, Color in Urban Life, closes on January 18th!
To submit your abstract please visit: http://www.aic2016.org/submission
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 18th, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: May 1st, 2016
Final Paper Submission Deadline: June 18th, 2016
Early Registration Ends: June 18th, 2016
Conference Theme:
Color in Urban Life: Images, Objects and Spaces.
The aim of AIC2016 is to share experiences regarding the use of color in images, objects and space, from different perspectives and disciplines, thus contributing to a better user experience, improving usability, and also to improve life quality in our cities.
Topics:
Color & Environment
Architectural Color Design
Color in Product Design
Color in Communication Design
Color in Urban Cultures
Color Aesthetics
Color Psychology
Color Education
Color & Health
Color & Light
Color Science & Technology
Color Physiology
by Suomen väriyhdistys | Jul 7, 2015 | News
CIE 2016 Lighting Quality and Energy Efficiency Conference, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
3–5 March 2016
Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 September 2015
Please send abstracts only through the online submission system, click here
Conference Secretariat: ciecb @ cie.co.at
www.cie.co.at
ICISP 2016, Trois-Rivières, Québec, CANADA
Seventh International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
and MCS2016, International Symposium on Multispectral Colour Science
30 May – 1 June 2016
Full-Paper Submission Deadline: 17 January 2016
icisp-conf.org
AIC Interim Meeting, Santiago, CHILE
COLOR IN URBAN LIFE: IMAGES, OBJECTS, SPACES
18-22 October 2016
Organizer: Asociación del Color, ACC (Chilean Colour Association)
Co-chairs: Paz Cox Irarrázaval (Designer), María Rosa Domper (Designer) and Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic (Graphic Designer)
E-mail: info@aic2016.org
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 18 February 2016
www.aic2016.org
vimeo
Conference theme and content extended, see:
http://www.aic2016.org/the-meeting/
More infos, see:
http://www.ad-chroma.com/index.php?article_id=28&clang=1
by Suomen väriyhdistys | May 12, 2015 | News
From Verena Schindler, Chair AIC study group on Environmental Colour Design:
AIC e-news
JAIC Vol 14 (2015)
Table of Contents
Papers
Carolyn Kane
Teresa Campos Viana, Caroline Salvan Pagnan, Eliane Ayres
Martin Constable, Junyan Wang, Kap Luk Chan, Xiaoyan Zhang
Paul Centore
Stephen Westland, Meong Jin Shin
Takuzi Suzuki, Misaki Kan’no, Noriko Yata, Yoshitsugu Manabe
International Colour-Emotion Association Poll, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne
Bâtiment Géopolis, Quartier UNIL-Mouline
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Please take part and distribute our newly launched international colour-emotion association poll!
This online poll is part of a collaborative international research project hosted at the University of Lausanne (LERB, research group Christine Mohr). To best assess cross-cultural differences, we translated the poll into various languages. If you can help with additional languages or particular target groups (e.g. age, profession, etc.), please contact us (
christine.mohr@unil.ch)!
designmesse.ch Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2015 öffnet die designmesse.ch in Zürich ihre Tore zum vierten Mal.
Speziell hinweisen möchten wir auf die Sonderschau Gestaltung im Handwerk.
Ehemalige und aktuelle Studierende des Lehrgangs Gestalterin/Gestalter im Handwerk stellen ihre Werke aus. Entdecken Sie Prototypen, überraschende Ideen und inspirierende Techniken und knüpfen sie Kontakt zu begabten und engagierten Handwerkerinnen und Handwerkern. Wir freuen uns sehr über diese Zusammenarbeit mit der designmesse.ch und der Trägerschaft Gestaltung im Handwerk.
http://www.designmesse.ch/
Exhibition, Winterthur, SWITZERLAND
Im Gewerbemuseum Winterthur findet am Samstag, 9. Mai 2015 die Eröffnung der Ausstellung ‘Der entfesselte Raum’ statt. Das Haus der Farbe ist an dieser Ausstellung mit dem Forschungsprojekt ‘Farbstrategien in der Architektur’ vertreten.
Sechs verschiedene Farbstrategien an ausgewählten internationalen Bauten aus dem 20. und 21. Jahrhundert – von der Architekturikone bis zum versteckten Kleinod – lassen das raumgestalterische Potenzial von Farbe entdecken. Dieses Zusammenspiel von Farbe und Raum haben wir zusammen mit der Universität Edinburgh im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes untersucht.
http://gewerbemuseum.ch/ausstellungen/vorschau/detailansicht/gmwausstellung/farbstrategien-in-der-architektur/?no_cache=1
Colour Group (GB), UK
Light and Colour in Paris in association with Centre Français de la Couleur (Vice President
Patrick Callet), and including sunset at Notre Dame de Paris
19 June 2015, from 10.00 hrs
Musée de Minérologie, Mines-ParisTech, 60 Boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Paris.
(Metro Luxembourg)
Color and Light in Architecture IV, Sofia, BULGARIA
11–12 May 2015
Organized by Color Group Bulgaria
Department of Architecture of the University of Architecture,
Civil Engineering and Geodesy
Conference in Bulgarian and English
Email: colorarch @ mail.bg.
Exhibition in Albacete, SPAIN
Colour and Light
7 May — 2 June 2015
Vidriera para el rosetón de la catedral de Albacete
500 años del comienzo de la construcción de la iglesia de San Juan Bautista
Autora: Pilar Belmonte
Exposición en el Colegio de Arquitectos de Albacete
More: pilar.belmonte @ gmail.com
Call for Contributions, BRAZIL:
I thank you for your cooperation.
João Carlos de Oliveira Cesar
prof.dr Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
Universidade de São Paulo
Special Issue on Color
Architectural Theory Review colour special issue online (English)
Diseña Revista, Escuela de Diseño, Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, edited by Ximena Ulibarri, Santiago de Chile, ISSN: 0718-8447 (Spanish)
New colour books on the ECD website:
More upcoming colour events:
by Suomen väriyhdistys | Mar 21, 2015 | News
The Finnish Colour Association (Suomen väriyhdistys) celebrates International Colour Day, 21st March, by giving the Iris Award to lighting designer, scenographer Markku Uimonen for his outstanding career as a versatile visual designer and teacher in the field of the performing arts.
Markku Uimonen
AIC International Colour Association has proposed Spring Equinox (21st March) to be celebrated as International Colour Day (www.aic-colour.org). The purpose of the International Colour Day is to draw attention to colour as a phenomenon shared by all humanity and to highlight events and achievements in the field of colour. In addition The United Nations has declared 2015 International Year of Light (www.light2015.org).
Chamber opera “La Voix Humaine”, Savonlinna Opera Festival, 1993. Kaisa Hannula, soprano; Markus Lehtinen, conductor; Vilppu Kiljunen, director; Markku Uimonen, visual designer. Photo: Markku Uimonen.
Mr. Uimonen was educated in the Theatre Academy of Finland (Now part of the University of the Arts Helsinki), the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Massachusetts, USA.
Markku Uimonen has designed visuals for over 60 large-scale productions for e.g. the Finnish National Opera, Operá du Rhin Strasbourg, Opera di Cosenza, Savonlinna Opera Festival, and most of the major theatres in Finland. In Sweden he has designed in the mid 90’s sets, lighting, and projections for the Gothenburg Folk Theatre and Riksteatern in Stockholm. In Hong Kong he has designed sets, projections and lighting in several venues, most notably the Lyric Theatre at the Hong Kong Adacemy for Performing Arts HKAPA, where he has served as a visiting professor and Artist-in-Residence several times since 2002, latest being the spring semester 2013. Markku Uimonen was artistic director of the LUX Helsinki Light Art Festival 2011–2014
Other artistic work ranges from conceptual light art to contemporary theatre and from exhibition lighting (e.g Hannover Expo pavilion 2000) to numerous Contemporary Dance visualizations.
“4000V-Shadow of Light”. Acrylic, charcoal and neon light on canvas, 2014. Re-production of work exhibited at the Retretti Art Centre, 1995. Photo: Markku Uimonen.
Markku Uimonen’s contribution to teaching design in the performing arts is profound and extensive. He worked as lecturer in scenography at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture) during 1997–99 and as professor of lighting design at the Theatre Academy of Finland from 2000 until the end of last year. He has also led numerous international lighting workshops, and has given talks in seminars and conferences in Sweden, France, USA, China, Japan and Russia.
The Finnish Colour Association’s Iris Award (Suomen väriyhdistyksen Iiris -palkinto) can be given to work or deed involving colour that has noticeably improved aesthetic appreciation, functionality or safety in people’s environment and daily life. The work can involve fine art, design, architecture or environmental design or for example colour technologies such as the printing industry.
by Suomen väriyhdistys | Mar 22, 2014 | News
Thorvald Lindqvist’s unique research from the 1980s provides Information about historical colours of Helsinki for today’s builders and restorers. Photo Helsinki City Building Supervision Office/Leena Jaskanen.
The Finnish Colour Association (Suomen väriyhdistys) celebrated International Colour Day, 21st March, by giving the Iris Award to the Helsinki City Building Supervision Office, Tikkurila Oyj and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in Paper Conservation.
The award was given for their unique collaboration on reviving and saving for posterity the colour research of building conservator Thorvald Lindqvist. In the 1980s Lindqvist charted and collated facade colours of houses in Helsinki, representing building styles and periods from the Empire classical era to the 1960s. Lindqvist’s work was stored on the shelves of the Building Supervision Office as colour samples and notations in dozens of binders that were all but forgotten for three decades.
In 2012 the Building Supervision Office started a unique collaboration with the paint company Tikkurila to resurrect Thorvald Lindqvist’s historical colour plans. The project involved analysing Lindqvist’s notes and samples and converting them to present-day colour codes and tinting recipes, thus making them available to today’s planners, architects, builders.
‘The Helsinki Colour plan’ is an internet site, provided by the Building Supervision office, that makes these lost colours available again to all citizens. It includes scanned images of the original colour samples as well as a facade colour search functions by map, area, address and period. It also provides detailed advice and information on on methods and materials for repainting and resorting historical facade colours. See: (http://www.hel.fi/static/rakvv/varikaava/index.htm
Tikkurila’s contribution was to create the tinting recipes and new codes for Lindqvist’ colours, making them available to consumers and builders all over the country. In addition, Tikkurila set up an interactive web-service ‘Helsinki-värit’ (http://www.tikkurila.fi/helsinkivarit) that helps customers choose appropriate colour combinations for their colour restoration and repainting projects. The interactive service provides a digital colour chart and images of building styles, where the colours can be assigned according to Thorvald Lindqvist’s research findings.
Students of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in Paper Conservation rounded off this multidisciplinary project in 2013 by conservating the original written pages and colour samples recorded by Thorvald Lindqvist, thus ensuring there availability to future researchers. ‘Helsingin värikaava’ was one of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012.
Facade colours are among the most salient of urban visual elements. At the same time they are the most most vulnerable, both physically and culturally. The above project is an example of a joint effort to preserve an often neglected part the cultural history and ‘collective memory’ of our everyday surroundings. It is also an example of what can be achieved by open-minded collaboration between three distinctly different operators representing planning supervision, commerce and education.
Architects Leena Jaskanen and Marjatta Uusitalo together with their assistant, architecture student Anna Heikinheimo were responsible for the project at the Building Supervision Office. Design Manager Marika Raike, Customer Category Manager Marcus Wallström, Marketing Coordinator Rya Rosenlund-Tiainen and Tikkurila Color Service were the collaborators at Tikkurila Oyj. The conservation work at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences was done by students Jiri Taleva, Karoliina Valli and Hanna-Leena Väisänen under the supervision of lecturer Päivi Ukkonen.
From left to right: Marjukka Haavisto, Anna Heikinheimo and Olli Turunen (Helsinki City Building Supervision Office), Marcus Wallström and Marika Raike (Tikkurila Oyj), Päivi Ukkonen and Jiri Taleva (Metropolia).
Harald Arnkil
Chair, Iris Jury
Vice President, Finnish Colour Association
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