CHROMA by John Divola

A collection of works by American visual artist John Divola.

This work is an unpublished work that was produced after Divola's masterpiece "Zuma". In an interview with British curator David Company included at the end of the book, Divora points out how we perceive everything in terms of color. By attaching color filters and snoot to the strobe, "CHROMA" shakes the viewer's perception and invites us to a strange world that is familiar yet somewhat strange, like a parallel world.

“Shortly after 'Zuma', I produced a series of straight shots of the abandoned backyard of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Culver City, Los Angeles. It was black-and-white photography, but then I started doing something completely different, and around 1980, I started working on things that couldn't be photographed, such as gravity, magnetism, how water flows, and what you see when you press your eyes with your palm. I started working on a series of works.

At the time, we were also transitioning from the color negative film used for "Zuma" to large-format positive film. The early C-type color prints faded badly, so I wanted a new material that was more stable. The highly industrialized, artificial, deeply saturated and contrasted prints in this series are all Cibachrome and printed directly from positive film. Cibachrome was a very flawed material for traditional photographic painting, but it had such unique properties that we ended up using it. —John Divola

Limited to 800 copies.

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Title: CHROMA
Artist: John Divola
Skinnerboox, 2020
Hardcover, 200 x 240 mm
80 pages
Text/Interview by David Campany
First edition of 800 copies
ISBN 978-88-94895-33-9
¥5,100 + tax