CHROMA FRAGILITY
From Friday, February 27th 2026, the Donopoulos IFA Gallery will present Chris Doulgeris’ solo exhibition entitled Chroma Fragility.
Taking a new approach, the artist will exhibit a selection of his latest work, exploring the potential of two different printing media: printed words created from silkscreen printing on glass, and monochrome archival-quality printed images on cotton paper framed in coloured mounts to complement the monochrome themes.
As art critic Jennifer Braun describes in her article: […] In his new body of work, Chris re- and deconstructs the multiple meanings of colour. His starting point is colour samples used in commercial photography. Each sample comes with a number and unique name that targets emotions, meant to trigger a buying decision. Chris scans those samples and reprints them on a larger scale. He appropriates the existing material of commodification to distort it. If commercially defined colours are appropriated from “existing” colours, Chris appropriates that commercial appropriation for his artistic investigation, aligning himself with the tradition of 1980s Appropriation artists and the Pictures Generation.
[…] Glass separates the viewers from the colour on paper. The glass mediates perception of the work, just as language mediates perception of colour. While glass suggests transparency, it also conceals the technical mechanisms that shape each person’s understanding of colour
[…] Chris gives those existing colour samples new names, which he writes onto the glass. The name becomes part of the lens through which one perceives colour. Instead of uniformly confining those names to the lower right corner in a discrete font, Chris enlarges them, highlighting their role in the perception and interpretation of colour.
Curated by Chris Doulgeris
Exhibition text: Jennifer Braun
Donopoulos IFA Gallery
Agias Theodoras 3, 54623, Thessaloniki, Greece
Opening: Friday 27/02/2026, 19:00
Exhibition Duration: 27/02 – 28/03/2026
