“Outlining historical connections in colour can only get you so far—there’s an element that’s missing if you don’t experience it in person. In honour of this, the exhibition is itself an exercise in experimenting with colour, with the Vitra Design Museum´s collection acting as the material that Marcelis is manipulating. The museum’s team are happy to give themselves up to this process, partly as it has allowed them to re-discover ‘objects that were previously virtually unknown or at least somewhat hidden,’ as Steinmüller describes it, and provide these objects with ‘the space to glow.’”
