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The Mysterious Charm of Calamine
One metal, different color
Calamine, obtained through the hot rolling of steel, is proposed by Planium in a perspective of strong aesthetic fascination that derives largely from its ineffable colour. The streaks that are forming are not desired, the different degree of colouring and contrast that is formed in the flooring is completely random. The nuances give it an indefinite, almost mysterious chromatism, and this is where its charm lies, together with the dark colour that maintains a "cold" character on the whole: it can vary on different shades, until it reaches that of anthracite, which is the colour that characterizes it mostly. Dominating the streaks is the aviation colour, a gradation of blue that is not lively, with a gray base.
Sometimes it is the blue night that dominates, that cold colour that for Johannes Itten "closes in on itself, is introverted [...] has the tenacious strength of the winter nature that sprouts and develops in the dark, in darkness and stillness" and it is " an elusive nothingness, however, present as a crystalline atmosphere.” The blue of melancholic Jazz (not surprisingly Kind of Blue is one of the most famous albums of Miles Davis) and of Polar, a genre of French cinema where the directors of photography knowingly opted to desaturate and obtain a nocturnal, almost fatal tone through blue.