Το έτος 2024 είναι υπερβολικά σοβαρό στον τομέα των εορτασμών. Το έτος 2024 συμπληρώνονται 20 χρόνια από τη διεξαγωγή των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων της Αθήνας. Το έτος 2024 είναι 20 χρόνια μετά το 2004. Το οποίο 2004 ήταν 8 χρόνια μετά τον εορτασμό των 100 χρόνων από το 1896 κτλ... Εκείνη τη χρονιά, εθνική ανάταση, η Συννεφούλα και το φουστάνι της Ισλανδής έκαναν το έθνος από ανάδελφο - περήφανο.
Εκείνα τα χρόνια τα πάντα ήταν πλούσια, σαν τα ελέη των κυριών. Στα πλαίσια του σαρκασμού αλλά και εορτασμού των παχουλών αγελάδων, αποφασίζω και με διατάζω να κυκλοφορήσω μια σειρά έργων εμπνευσμένα και αλληλοσυμπληρωμένα από τους τελευταίους και πιο σκουρόχρωμους πίνακες του Rothko που νέος είδα μια φορά στην Tate και ξαναείδα και ξαναείδα και ξαναείδα και ξαναείδα.
Η σειρά "The Seagram Murals" ήταν να κρεμαστεί στο Four Seasons Restaurant της Νέας Υόρκης στο ισόγειο του πύργου Seagram. Ο καλλιτέχνης δέχθηκε την προσφορά των $35,000 το 1958 για να δημιουργήσει τεράστια έργα διακόσμησης της μίας από τις δύο αίθουσες του διάσημου εστιατορίου. Ο γεννημένος στη Ρωσία αριστερός κι αναρχικός ζωγράφος δήλωσε ένα χρόνο μετά... “I hope to ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won’t. People can stand anything these days.”
Τελικά, μετά από μια επίσκεψη στο χώρο και ένα γεύμα, ο Rothko επέστρεψε την αμοιβή του και απέσυρε τους πίνακες. Λίγο πριν την αυτοκτονία του μερικοί απ' αυτούς δωρίστηκαν στην Tate του Λονδίνου. Κάτι δεκαετίες μετά κι εγώ τους είδα κι άλλοι πολλοί.
Καπιταλισμός. Σοδομισμός. Προσφορά. Ζήτηση. Πολλές τελείες. Τίποτα τέλειο. Θα συνεχίσει. Η πορεία είναι τόσο ελάχιστη, καμιά στροφή. Μόνο αυτοί.
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The year 2024 is an extremely serious year in the field of celebrations. The year 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the Athens Olympic Games. The year 2024 is 20 years after 2004. Which 2004 was 8 years after the 100 years celebration since 1896 etc... That year, national exaltation, a famous Greek naïve song and Bjork's dress made the nation extremely proud .
In those years everything was rich-made, like the mercies of the ladies. In the context of sarcasm but also in celebration of fat cows, I decide and command myself to release a series of works inspired and complementary to the last and darker Rothko paintings that I saw once at the Tate as a young man and saw again and again and again and again and again.
"The Seagram Murals" series was to hang in New York's Four Seasons Restaurant on the ground floor of the Seagram Tower. The artist accepted the offer of $35,000 in 1958 to create huge decorative works for one of the two rooms of the famous restaurant. The Russian-born leftist and anarchist painter declared a year later... “I hope to ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won't. People can stand anything these days.”
Eventually, after a site visit and a meal, Rothko returned his fee and withdrew the paintings. Shortly before his suicide some of them were donated to the Tate in London. Some decades later, I saw them and many others like me, almost anarchists, partly leftists.
Capitalism. Sodomism. Offer. Demand. Lots of dots. Nothing perfect. It will continue. The course is so minimal, no turns. Only idiots.
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Black on Maroon is a large unframed oil painting on a vertically orientated rectangular canvas. The base colour of the painting is a deep maroon. As is suggested by the work’s title, this is overlaid with a large black rectangle, which in turn encloses two narrow maroon rectangles, suggesting a window-like structure. The black paint forms a solid block of colour but the edges are feathered, blurring into the areas of maroon. Different pigments have been used within the maroon, blending shades of crimson and oxblood colour. This changing tone gives a sense of depth in an otherwise abstract composition.
This is one of a series of large paintings Rothko made for a fashionable New York restaurant. By layering the paint, he created subtle relationships between the muted colours. They are much darker in mood than his previous works. He was influenced by the atmosphere of a library designed by the Italian artist Michelangelo (1475–1564). Rothko recalled the feeling of being ‘trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up’. A restaurant, he decided, was the wrong setting for these paintings. Instead, he presented the series to Tate gallery.
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