Sunday, 12 June 2011

Literary translation to colours

Francine Savard's show at Toronto's Diaz Contemporary earlier this year consisted of a series of minimalist paintings on horizontal canvas stripes.  Each painting is a colour translation of the first line of a famous novel, with the length of each word determining the length of the respective colour block.  Interesting idea.



That reminds me of Stefanie Posavec's very clever Writing Without Words project.