Mark Rothko. Dreaming of Not Being.
Arlea| N° d'inventaire | 23786 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 120 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782363080578 |
Mark Rothko was born in 1903 in Dvinsk in the Russian Empire—now Daugavpils in southeastern Latvia—under the name Marcus Rothkowitz. In the late 1930s, he abandoned the suffix to his surname and adopted American nationality. It was after the Second World War that what would make his painting internationally renowned emerged: his famous color screens. During the 1960s, he created his masterpiece: a set of obscure panels for a chapel that would bear his name in Houston. He committed suicide in 1970. Troubled by the apparent erasure of his origins in his work, Stéphane Lambert sought to retrace the erased thread of this uprooting. The author therefore traveled to Latvia and Houston, two destinations that seem to be polar opposites, and above all, he spent a lot of time wandering through Rothko's paintings. What emerges from this confrontation is a text that, starting from the painter's lived experience, gradually bends to the formlessness of the observed work and probes its immeasurable depth: a place where all places have amalgamated, where opposites combine. Born in 1974 in Brussels, Stéphane Lambert is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Alongside this book, he wrote a radio drama on Nicolas de Staël for France Culture, Portrait of the Artist on a Red Background.
Mark Rothko was born in 1903 in Dvinsk in the Russian Empire—now Daugavpils in southeastern Latvia—under the name Marcus Rothkowitz. In the late 1930s, he abandoned the suffix to his surname and adopted American nationality. It was after the Second World War that what would make his painting internationally renowned emerged: his famous color screens. During the 1960s, he created his masterpiece: a set of obscure panels for a chapel that would bear his name in Houston. He committed suicide in 1970. Troubled by the apparent erasure of his origins in his work, Stéphane Lambert sought to retrace the erased thread of this uprooting. The author therefore traveled to Latvia and Houston, two destinations that seem to be polar opposites, and above all, he spent a lot of time wandering through Rothko's paintings. What emerges from this confrontation is a text that, starting from the painter's lived experience, gradually bends to the formlessness of the observed work and probes its immeasurable depth: a place where all places have amalgamated, where opposites combine. Born in 1974 in Brussels, Stéphane Lambert is a novelist, poet, and essayist. Alongside this book, he wrote a radio drama on Nicolas de Staël for France Culture, Portrait of the Artist on a Red Background.