All Kinds of Blue takes its title from Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the seminal album that marked a radical shift in the history of jazz through its embrace of modality. Moving away from the rigid chord progressions of hard bop, Davis introduced a structure based on scales and tonal frameworks, o!ering musicians a "eld of possibility rather than a predetermined path. All Kinds of Blue adopts a similar approach. Rather than organizing works through strict thematic or formal categories, the exhibition unfolds within a shared chromatic "eld centered around blue. Here, colour operates not as a constraint, but as a generative structure: a #exible framework within which each work can articulate its own rhythm, atmosphere, and emotional register. Much like modal jazz, where a limited number of scales can generate in"nite melodic variations, the exhibition explores how a single colour can expand into multiple meanings. Blue emerges as spiritual and melancholic, technological and atmospheric, intimate and distant, natural and arti"cial. Never singular, it continuously shifts according to context, material, and perception. The works on view, ranging from Andy Warhol’s iconic images to process-based practices engaging with ink, printmaking, painting, and light, navigate this chromatic territory in distinct ways. Blue becomes surface and depth, memory and suspension; it evokes the night, the sea, the in"nite, and the unattainable. Within this "eld, the introduction of red functions as a deliberate counterpoint. Used sparingly, it recalibrates perception through contrast and visual tension. Beyond its formal role, this chromatic opposition also gestures toward systems of recognition and desire embedded within visual culture, from heraldry

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