Mazja Chloé Hillestrøm

GALLERI CHRISTOFFER EGELUND - COPENHAGEN (DK)

Technicolor

22. SEPTEMBER - 28. OCTOBER 2023

From Grand Canyon in Arizona to Death Valley east of the Sierra Nevada, there is a spectacular technicolor, kaleidoscopic display of multicolored rocks.

Oxidation of natural metal deposits are responsible for the stunning colors. A range of those deposits include red hematite, green chlorite, iron, aluminum, magnesium and titanium. The minerals were spewed from repeated volcanic eruptions more than 5 million years ago. Those eruptions deposited ash and minerals onto the landscape with heat and water altering them over time, transforming into what you see today.

Technicolor is the name of a three-color process that used a split-cube prism to expose three independent strips of film that would capture either red, green, or blue.

Walt Disney used technicolor in the making of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The spectacular success attracted the attention of the other film studios with blockbusters such asThe Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) andThe Wizard of Oz (1939) soon to follow.

Considering that technicolor was the most widely used color process during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Mazja Hilleström came up with the idea of naming all the artworks in this series after female stars in the most famous technicolor films, such as

Maureen O’Hara, Olivia de Havilland, and Hedy Lamarr.