Hans Theys
Hans Theys is a twentieth-century philosopher and art historian. He has written and designed dozens of books on the works of contemporary artists and published hundreds of essays, interviews and reviews in books, catalogues and magazines. All his publications are based on actual collaborations and conversations with artists.
This platform was developed by Evi Bert (M HKA / Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen) in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Research group Archivolt), M HKA, Antwerp and Koen Van der Auwera. We also thank Idris Sevenans (HOR) and Marc Ruyters (Hart Magazine).
image: (c) M HKA, Courtesy Annie Gentils Gallery
The colour alphabet is an ode to synaesthesia and designed in a similar way as the azart-line alphabet, without intersections. Every first letter of the name of the colour is the same as the saturation of the letter. ‘I’ is indigo, ‘A’ is aquamarine and so on.
In cooperation with Teun de Lange.
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