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ANKE ZÜRN

 
   
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PROJECTS:

> Labor für Struktur und Farbe
> natural dyes and pigments
> making sense
> space structures and modular structures
> periodic surfaces
> visuals for communicating chemistry
> symmetry,
pattern and ornament
> crystallography,
art and cultural heritage
> on materials research
   
 

COLORS: NATURAL DYES AND PIGMENTS

Key words: Natural dyes, dye plants, historic dyes and pigments, laking, minerals, crystals, Maya blue, Indigo, traditional knowledge, immaterial cultural heritage, site specific and personal materials, sustainable art materials, uniqueness

     

Site specific, unique, and personal

 

maya blue biel 2012
"Woad Maya blue, Biel/Bienne, June 2012". My first "Maya blue", based on indigo from woad, grown in my garden in Biel/Bienne, and palygorskite (by Kremer-Pigmente). It seems a bit more grey greenish, than the Maya blue samples commercially available.
I have to see the color change with different binders and painting technics so.
     

Lakes

natural dyes and pigments
"purple lake 1"
Anke Zürn, January 2013. Lake pigment based on a natural dye and a clay mineral.
 

Dye plants and their use - a cultural heritage to keep alive

indigo
Indigofera specie and woad (Isatis tinctoria). Botanical Garden, Univierity of Zürich.
Photo: Anke Zürn, 2011

 

Public presentations / invited talks:

 

Invited talk “Indigo“
Conference: “Definieren Materialisieren, Archivieren“, 4-5 October 2012
Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Invited talk: „Farbstoffe“ (dyes)
Tag der Chemie, June 2011, University Irchel, Zurich, in the framework of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, Zurich, Switzerland.

     

news:

 

November 2013

Symposium
GRENZGÄNGE ZWISCHEN WISSENSCHAFT UND KUNST
15.–16. November 2013
Wien
Anmeldung

October 2013

woad indigo test

MERCI & DANKE !!!!
I received a working grant by the city of Biel/Bienne for my project "AROUND LAKE BIEL". The project will start in March 2014.

 
Visual blog:

Goldrute
September 2013, canada golden-rod Solidago canadensis is flowering in Biel/Bienne.
> blog

 
New address:


Labor für
Struktur und Farbe
General Dufourstrasse 138
CH-2502 Biel/Bienne
Switzerland

 
iucr2014
The United Nations has declared 2014 as the International Year of Crystallography
More information on the IUCr website
 
 
 
         
     

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