ANNOTATIONS ON COLOUR
February 15 — May 31, 2026
AI WEIWEI | ALEJANDRO CAMPINS | ANISH KAPOOR| ANITA DUBE | ASTHA BUTAIL | DANIEL BUREN | HANIF KURESHI | HANS OP DE BEECK | JULIO LE PARC | NEDKO SOLAKOV | NICOLA DURVASULA | PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU | THUKRAL & TAGRA
Ever since the city of Jaipur took the pink identity, its chromatic uniformity has been maintained as an urban mandate. More than an architectural curiosity, the Pink City functions as a civic syntax: colour here is not background, but a public language. Jaipur is a city trained in pigment, where colour regulates atmosphere, perception, and social comportment. This exhibition takes that condition not as context, but as premise.
Developed at Jaipur Centre for Art, this exhibition approaches colour as an active phenomenon rather than a descriptive attribute. Colour is understood not as symbol or ornament, but as event—something that unfolds in time, transforms in space, and implicates the body of the viewer. The works brought together here treat colour as a structure of perception: optical events, material intensities, and chromatic systems that are completed only through the viewer’s movement. In Jaipur—where light is vertical, unforgiving, and revelatory—this perceptual instability becomes central.
Across modern and contemporary abstraction, artists have long insisted on colour’s affective and psychological force. Wassily Kandinsky famously described colour as ‘a power which directly influences the soul,’ likening it to music—an immaterial vibration capable of producing inner resonance. In minimalist and installation-based practices, colour and luminosity become immersive phenomena capable of transforming spatial and perceptual experience.
The selected works in this exhibition move across this expanded chromatic field—from dense, absorptive surfaces and void-like colour zones, to kinetic and optical propositions where spectatorship itself becomes the medium, to dispersed constellations of colour. In each case, colour is not inert; it acts.
Ultimately, this exhibition positions colour as both ancient and urgently contemporary, precisely because it is deeply human. Colour is biological—rooted in the physics of light and the physiology of vision—and cultural, shaped by history, belief, and collective memory. In a world saturated by algorithmic images and flattened chromatics, these works insist on colour as lived experience: slow, demanding, and irreducible. Situated within Jaipur—a city already governed by pigment and light—the exhibition proposes colour as a site of relation, where perception, emotion, and shared experience are continuously evolving.
Supported by:
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke | Galleria Continua | Gallery XXL | Nature Morte | Vadehra Art Gallery