The Color Black: Antinomies of a Color in Architecture and Art

Join Head Hi and MACK as we host author, architect and educator Mohsen Mostafavi and designer Sean Canty for an afternoon book launch and conversation on this newly released publication exploring the use and possibilities of the color black across art and architectural histories.

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This publication traces a theoretical and visual narrative of the relationship of art and architecture with the colour black through two engaging essays by acclaimed architect and critic Mohsen Mostafavi and the Marxist German art historian Max Raphael (1889–1952). Bringing together a rich inventory of images, Mostafavi considers architecture’s connection with the colour by considering parallel developments in global art practices – with references ranging from Japanese screens to Rothko, Georgia O’Keefe to Kara Walker, Peter Celsing to Derek Jarman. Alongside these renowned touchpoints, he draws on Raphael’s little-known and highly distinctive text The Color Black: On the Material Constitution of Form,…