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| Blue Orange Works |
 "Blue Orange Angel" (detail), oil on canvas, 2001 |
on site sculpture W-burg, Brooklyn, 2001 |
"Tableau Vivant" Blue Orange Afternoon, Nov 2001 |
 Blue Orange Painting, 2003-2005 Plaster, pigment, oil on canvas 52 x 72 in. Photo: Madeleine Hatz |
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History of Blue Orange
Blue Orange goes back to October 2001 in New York City, one month or so after the fall of the twin towers. It started as an urge to mobilize for peace , an urge to start forming a resistance movement * in the face of growing war propaganda, xenophobia and patriotism.At a time of chaos and confusion, I wanted to put a call out to the art community.I hosted events at my studio, wrote the Blue Orange Manifesto, and started this web site, which at first did not carry my name. Later the site became the host for all my work as an artist and activist. Painting was becoming literal Act and Action. Color and Space thus become the vehicle for the Act and Action.
The name Blue Orange was picked when I glanced at my palette: At that specific point in time it was blue/orange, which of course is also the two ranges of warm and cold colors. Concretely it is the full spectrum with all its nuances and philosophically it is the perfect paradox: the unification of the seemingly incompatible. Utopia?
As Paul Eluard wrote: "The Earth is Blue Like an Orange"
Madeleine Hatz
