True Colors
True Colors at Bright Moments gallery in Berlin
An egg is attached to a steel rod, which is slowly rotated by a vintage gdr drill machine.
Clear varnish is being sprayed periodically onto the rotating egg, resulting in cumulative layers of drying
varnish.
The solvent in each spray will loosen the existing varnish on the egg, resulting in an everlasting cycle of
softening and hardening of the varnish layers.
The installation was running 24/7 from the 25th of July until the 16th of August 2024, at Bright Moments
gallery in Berlin.
The spray can is manually replaced once per day.
This project was created in collaboration with Pedro Moraes.
Exhibition poster
Vernissage
The exhibition is running 24/7
Daily updates
After 2 days
After day 3 the egg adapter broke and the egg fell
A new egg adapter was installed. The egg was cooked in order to make it more stable.
Day 2 with new adapter
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 8
A big part dripped off.
Day 9
Day 11
Day 12
Day 16
References
Sui Jianguo, "Shape of Time (Day 1895)"
Henrik Menné
Eggs in art & design: https://www.are.na/laurel-schwulst/eggs-in-art-and-design
Process
Prototyping, 3d-modelling, 3d-printing: Ifigenia Dakouri
https://www.germanys-true-colors.de/Klarlack-fuer-Zweischichtlacke--400ml.html
Bohrmaschine DDR SBB 16i Hönnecke & Ditter Eibenstock https://www.ebay.de/itm/395061869483
Accumulating varnish residue
Every 5 minutes the spray can is auomatically spraying for 2 seconds. That's about 9:30min per 24h.
The spray nozzle is rated at ~17g per 10 seconds. One spray can has about 200-250g of actual varnish. (the
400ml on the label includes the solvent)
250/17*10=147s of continuous spraying per can.
Photo: Pedro Moraes
The first experiments of this have happened in 2020:
Two years of aging.
First object (2020) was manually poured with varnish once per day.