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What color is black bile? The second part of the name indicates not the color, but the type of secretion. We are not sure exactly what fluid was involved. Perhaps it was the blood that flows from the spleen. It is darker than blood from other areas. It flows to the liver, so this is most likely where the association with bile came from. This particular fluid became the basis for the mythology of melancholy and decadence. Its excess was said to be responsible for the temper from under the sign of Saturn.
Jakub Czyszczoń, calling his exhibition Spleen, reveals precisely this primordial baggage of meanings, which derives directly from the function and structure of the spleen. Among the concepts associated with the melancholic temperament are also Earth and Autumn. These two concepts seem to be particularly close to the set of works that make up Spleen. This is evidenced by their coloration, which is based on cinnabar. There are two sources of this dye. One of...More
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What color is black bile? The second part of the name indicates not the color, but the type of secretion. We are not sure exactly what fluid was involved. Perhaps it was the blood that flows from the spleen. It is darker than blood from other areas. It flows to the liver, so this is most likely where the association with bile came from. This particular fluid became the basis for the mythology of melancholy and decadence. Its excess was said to be responsible for the temper from under the sign of Saturn.
Jakub Czyszczoń, calling his exhibition Spleen, reveals precisely this primordial baggage of meanings, which derives directly from the function and structure of the spleen. Among the concepts associated with the melancholic temperament are also Earth and Autumn. These two concepts seem to be particularly close to the set of works that make up Spleen. This is evidenced by their coloration, which is based on cinnabar. There are two sources of this dye. One of...More
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