LIving Colour

During the 1960s artist Eric Olson embarked on a series of works under the title Optochromi The vast majority of these were plexiglass objects most were sculptures although a few are formally closer to paintings From a cinematic point of view one could describe the Optochromi sculptures as metaphysical colour animations frozen in time so much so that modern composer Jan Wilhelm Morthenson made his film Interferences 1966 a tribute to 1920s abstraction à la Richter with the use of Olsons works Gösta Werner did something similar five years earlier with Levande färg only that he mainly circles the sculptures and contemplates them more than he interacts with them A respectfully curious distance is always kept