COLOR FEVER

April 19 – August 21, 2016

JF Willumsen's Museum gets COLOR FEVER with the upcoming exhibition, where Willumsen's distinctive use of color will be presented in new, surprising ways.

JF Willumsen has often been called a color madman and is bright in his use of colors. He is known for his large color surfaces and intense color contrasts. With the exhibition COLOR FEVER We see Willumsen's distinctive color palette from new angles. Willumsen's color universe was exuberant, but his working process was extremely disciplined.

Few artists have made as detailed color studies as Willumsen and produced so many color samples in the process leading up to the final work. In the exhibition we show a selection of his meticulously filed notes and focus on his color technical experiments that led to more than 70 unique color mixtures.

Willumsen had an intense relationship with the color yellow. He called it “the color of my life.” The moonlight shines yellow in the night pictures from Venice, just as the lamp shines yellow over the Evening Soup. The fluorescent yellow appears in many shades throughout his work. But the color fever also broke out in green, red and blue colors.

The exhibition stems from a collaboration with Flügger to develop a color palette with some of Willumsen's most distinctive colors. Flügger has also developed a number of background colors adapted to the Willumsen color palette. The Wolmer Group is responsible for painting the museum's walls in these colors, so that the interaction between wall and work becomes part of the COLOR FEVER.

COLOR FEVER is a journey through Willumsen's color universe, his working methods and sources of inspiration, but also an opportunity to investigate and test how colors affect us. Through surprisingly sensory processes, tests and visits to our color lab, the audience gets many kinds of color experiences. Come and get COLOR FEVER and learn more about both Willumsen's color universe and the world of colors in general.