here & now

Colour, of course, is essential, metaphorically and quite literally. As is language, and when the two meet, weird things can happen. We like to entertain ourselves by coming up with odd ideas for our subtitles to divide up those rather lengthy interviews we feature in mono.kultur – from chess moves to classic comic gap fillers to, well, colour charts for our still current issue with Belgian painter Michaël Borremans. It was going to be jazz titles at first, but when we came across the Wikipedia colour chart with its rather psychedelic names for specific colours, it was too good to pass up on. Seriously: Outrageous Orange? Razzle Dazzle Rose? Papaya Whip? Yes, yes, and yes. For some entertaining random reading, go here.