Yellow. An Open Circle

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Tore Svensson

A yellow circle shaped by Tore Svensson in porcelain becomes the starting point. His brooch Yellow takes the simplicity of a gesture and elevates it into a symbol: that round, elemental trace that Joan Miró transformed into a universal sign, halfway between the childlike and the cosmic, between ancestral memory and future vision.

Yellow, as a colour, is always ambivalent. It is the sun and gold, warmth and joy, but also alertness and danger. Kandinsky described it as a restless colour, one that never stands still, always expanding outward. In Svensson’s hands, yellow vibrates not just as pigment, but as material and bodily presence, becoming an ornament that inhabits the skin.

The circle, in turn, is a symbol of infinity and return, of the star and of play. In this piece, it becomes tangible, domestic, and intimate, yet it retains its universal resonance: seed and planet, jewel and warning, stillness and explosion.

The exhibition that unfolds from this brooch invites us to think of colour and form as language. Yellow is not just an object: it is an open space for imagination, a light worn on the body, radiating outward like a portable sun.