American artist Laura Owens has covered the walls of an exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's works in colourful handmade wallpaper.
Currently on show at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, the exhibition Laura Owens and Vincent Van Gogh explores the relationship between the seminal artist and the contemporary painter.
The exhibition is located at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
Seven of Van Gogh's paintings, which have been loaned from museums and galleries around the world, are exhibited on walls covered in Owens' distinctive wallpaper.
A selection of Owen's own artworks are also on show.
To make the wallpaper, the American artist used pastels and watercolours to paint colourful patterns onto a giant sheet of handmade wallpaper.
Owens also employed a variety of other artistic techniques such as screenprinting, felt-flocking, black sand, oil woodblock printing, airbrushing to create the expansive painting. Seven paintings by Vincent van Gogh's are displayed in the gallery
"Parts of the wallpaper have over fifty layers of silk-screening; some of the paints include iridescent pigments whose colours shift under different lights," said Owens.
"The wall becomes an intoxicating, refreshing means of conquering the space of an exhibition and charting surprising new mental territory."
The wallpaper was created using pastels and watercolours, among other techniques
The resulting design is almost tactile, and features lots of geometric shapes, swirling patterns and...