Blue, Red, Yellow [Azul, rojo, amarillo]

Jaime Davidovich first began exploring texture in his early monochromatic works. He later experimented with the real and conceptual boundaries of painting by eliminating the frame and attaching canvases directly to the wall. By the early 1970s, he worked with adhesive tape, placing it on walls, floors, stairways, and sidewalks. Davidovich later made the conceptual leap from actual tape to videotape. One of his first video works, "Blue, Red, Yellow" explores the properties of the medium. Rather than the primary colors of video (red, blue, and green), he uses the primary colors of painting to gradually tape over the screens of three television sets broadcasting electronic snow. The proverbial “artist’s hand” both reveals the illusory space of television and blocks it, leaving nothing more than flat planes of color on the screen’s surface.