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Mark Grotjahn with ARTWORK and SIGNED

Door Robert Storr

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#337532-WC6
Titel	Mark Grotjahn with ARTWORK and SIGNED
Auteur	Storr, Robert
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	London : Gagosian Gallery
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	193259891X
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original decorated cloth, numerous (double page) colour illustrations, 4to. With artwork for Gijs [van Tuyl] and Ineke by Mark Grotjahn on front cover. + A handwritten postcard from Robin Vousden of Gagosian Gallery to Gijs [van Tuyl].
Samenvatting	In Grotjahn's first “butterfly paintings,” clusters of vibrant, gradated triangular forms were anchored to vertical tangents, vehicles by which to treat problems in classical perspective such as dual and multiple vanishing points. As he continues to mine this hieratic motif—which over the last decade has yielded extensive permutations that invoke narratives central to modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op art—the allusions to the natural world have ceded to more specific aesthetic issues such as the monochrome, the serial image, and the sublime. Increasingly, he has restricted his use of color, moving through phases of blue and black, and now to red and yellow. In the new paintings he has closely subd... (Lees verder)ivided the “rays,” making the chromatic distinctions ever more nuanced. With Untitled (Red Butterfly I Yellow P MARK GROTJAHN 07-08 751), Grotjahn revels in a highly controlled mastery of shade while continuing to embrace contingency. From the upper right-hand side of the painting, moving clockwise, the palette shifts from a darker red to an intense vermillion, contrasting with the acid yellow undercoat, which he deliberately reveals in the block-lettered signature. As Grotjahn continues to refine the butterfly paintings so does he, conversely, appear to find release in the raw energy of the “face paintings.” Roughly painted on cardboard, with sections often cut away to reveal painted canvas beneath, they compel with their strident tones, scratchy textures, and cartoonish faces that loom from the surface. Inspired by Picasso's primitivist explorations, they resemble tribal masks and other ritualistic totems. In Untitled (Red Face 773), an abstract face in yellow, gray, white, and pale green is traced in linear dashes and concentric whorls, its glowering eyes incised from the vivid red background. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Robert Storr.
Pagina's	69
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 1.250,00

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