Tamara Grcic’s sculpture project 46 colours references the scientific color code used for rock samples. The artist makes colours speak in various ways. In a video shown in the museum space in Graz, 46 people whisper the names of 46 colours.

The same terms fleetingly reappear as writing in public spaces, before disappearing again: pupils use chalk to write them on streets and walls around of Graz.

46 mouth-blown glass shapes are installed in a rock face near Klöch, an environmentally protected area in South-Eastern Styria. Exhibition space, public space and natural space – the three are connected by 46 colours.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition/project, Tamara Grcic: 46 Colours in the Mineralogy Department of the Natural History Museum (Universalmuseum Joanneum), Graz, 14 September 2014 – 31 December 2015.

English and German text.