[no title] 1981

Curator: Here we have an untitled piece by Richard Paul Lohse. It's a vibrant color screenprint, measuring about 66 by 66 centimeters. What are your first thoughts? Editor: It hits you right away, doesn't it? A strict grid, nine squares in total, each a flat block of bold color. I'm getting a playful but also strangely serious vibe. Like a color theory experiment gone rogue. Curator: Lohse was Swiss, deeply involved with concrete art, pursuing rational, constructive principles. He believed art could reflect social order. Editor: Ah, that explains the rigidity. These colors, though, they feel like signals. Like a secret language using red, yellow, green, and blue as building blocks. Curator: Color as communication, as codified emotion, resonates deeply. The brain craves patterns, and the arrangement, although simple, begs for decoding. Editor: It's true. There's a calming effect, and I think it's the balance of the colors. I keep wondering how Lohse picked them. Curator: Lohse was clearly a visionary, finding beauty in structure and making order sensuous. Editor: Maybe that's why it sticks with me—an echo of something ancient, yet resolutely modern.