Yellow. An Open Circle

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Tore Svensson

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 born from this brooch is an invitation to think of colour and form as language. Yellow is not merely an object: it is an open space for imagination, a light carried on the body and radiating outward like a small portable sun.

This work is part of the ongoing research that Tore Svensson began with his series Covers, presented at Hannah Gallery in 2020, where he explored the idea of the essential gesture and the formal patterns that, like primal signs, recur throughout the history of art.

With Yellow, the artist also opens a dialogue about the learning of forms, about repetition and copying as creative acts, processes that, rather than imitating, allow us to understand and transmit the very essence of art. In this sense, the circle emerges as an archetypal shape, both simple and unfathomable, returning again and again as a hypnotic mystery.