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A google search of the word green, a commission and a visit to Horsens Statsskole, which was founded in 1532, lead to the exhibition theme, title, and person depictions.
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...& darkness
oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm
...& vibrio cholera
oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm
...& refraction of light
oil on plexiglas and canvas 106 x 86 cm
A google search of the word green, a commission and a visit to Horsens Statsskole, which was founded in 1532, lead to the exhibition theme, title, and person depictions.
...& arsen
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& tri
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& oxid
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
We are all familiar with the color green and for the modern human being it is hard to imagine, that it would be deadly, to get the color on your walls. Never the less, this was the case back in late 17 and 1800.
...& Gosio's gas
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
After 1775, White cobber arsenic was used in the production of green soap, candles, fabric, toys, grocery and wallpaper. In 1875 it became possible to produce wallpaper mechanical and therefore affordable for the Victorian middle class. Their homes where decorated with green wallpaper containing up to 1gram of arsenic per m2, that alone enough to kill hundreds.
The color green runs through the exhibition ”…& deadly decor”, which contain 18 oil paintings on canvas and green plexiglass. The motifs are depictions of persons, who have a historical connection to the knowledge of colors or the story about the arsenic wallpaper.
...& Scheeles green
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& Paris green
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& arsenic
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
The idea to these depictions of historical person’s, came partly from a commission and a visit to the above mentioned school, where June Jin, got a guided tour through the extensive portrait collection. The collection shows the development in how people throughout 400 years, has chosen to be immortalized through painted portraits. Later this year, June Jin herself will contribute with a portrait to this very collection.
...& gravitation
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& zur Farbenlehre
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& myth
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm
...& the whistle
oil on canvas
46 x 36 cm