"An expansive retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris, shows why the visionary artist continues to turn heads." W Magazine
This illustrated catalogue is published to accompany the retrospective exhibition devoted to American artist Mark Rothko, curated by Suzanne Pagé and the artists son, Christopher Rothko. The show will feature over one hundred works. Born Markus Rothkowitz in Latvia in the early 20th century, the man who would soon become known as Mark Rothko began painting in the 1930s. While his early works were influenced by mythology and Surrealism, his first abstract paintings emerged in the 1940s with the Multiform series, followed by his Classic Years and the Black and Gray paintings. A key figure on the New York art scene, Rothko was an uncategorisable artist who deployed an extensive palette of colour and light with a talent that consistently triggers emotion. His great sensitivity shaped a poetic, enigmatic universe that leaves no one untouched.
Text in English and French.
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"An expansive retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris, shows why the visionary artist continues to turn heads." - W Magazine
Foreword, Bernard Arnault, Fondation Louis Vuitton President
Preface, Suzanne Pagé
Not Nothing, Christopher Rothko
It Lives and Breathes: Depicting Human Drama, Riccardo Venturi
Catalogue of exhibited works
Rothko before Rothko: Early Works, Ludovic Delalande
A Saffron-Hued Robe: Mythology and Surrealism, François MichaudRothkos
Multiforms, Harry Cooper
Mark Rothkos Classic Paintings: Theaters of the Mind, Nancy Spector
Weights and Measures, Jeffrey Weiss
From the Experience of Uprooting to Aesthetic Subversion; a Pioneer who
Renewed the Language of Painting, Annie Cohen-Solal
Biography, Claudia Buizza
The Seagram Murals, Magdalena Gemra
The Rothko Room in the Phillips Collection, Cordélia de Brosses
The Rothko Chapel: Painting the Night, Cordélia de Brosses
Rothko, Giacometti, and the UNESCO Commission, Claudia Buizza
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Comments collected by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
List of exhibited works
Bibliography
An internationally renowned art historian, Suzanne Pagé is currently artistic director of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Formerly the director of the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, she curated the previous French retrospective of Rothkos work, back in 1999.
