Jacana Gallery (2435 Granville St., Vancouver, Canada) is displaying a piece described by a Swiss artist as (from the Marc Rembold webpage on the Jacana Gallery website)

Using high tech nanotechnological colours, materials and instruments I have the possibility to create more real (nearer to the liquid space) and strong colours. It allows me to define and create colours in a contemporary manner instead of using traditional pigments. In the series  LIQUIDS there is no use of pigments in oil or acrylic, no painterly technique, and no other ordinary processes to create colours is involved.

From there, the colours in their visible forms are treated manually and finally the polymethylmethacrylat process brings to the colors a final optical effect, giving them the visual quality of liquid precious stones.

Using high tech nanotechnological colours, materials and instruments I have the possibility to create more real (nearer to the liquid space) and strong colours. It allows me to define and create colours in a contemporary manner instead of using traditional pigments. In the series < LIQUIDS there is no use of pigments in oil or acrylic, no painterly technique, and no other ordinary processes to create colours is involved.

From there, the colours in their visible forms are treated manually and finally the polymethylmethacrylat process brings to the colors a final optical effect, giving them the visual quality of liquid precious stones.

The concept behind my work is the materialisation of light. Through electronic instrumentation and contemporary imaging processes, I bring the invisible realm of light’s colour spectrum to our eyes. I explore ways to manifest the beauty of something immaterial into vibrant, pure liquid-like colour.

Here’s Marc Rembold’s Welly, the work being featured at Jacana,

Welly by Marc Rembold (downloaded from the Jacana Gallery website)

I’m not sure how these colours are nanotechnological but they are certainly stunning. This reminds me of the work that’s based on Morpho butterfly wings, opals, jewel beetles, and other naturally iridescent animals and objects. All of it has to do with mimicking nanoscale structures in order to obtain certain optical properties. My May 20, 2011 posting is the latest on mimicking those optical properties.