2494. TEXT by i3

Author:i3
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Brice Marden, Ru Ware, Marbles, Polke

This Is What I Do

BRICE MARDEN

Yellow hark acacia^ fever acacia, wet areas

misty white hlue green, yellow greens

umher stems, yellow hark fever acacia

darker warmer greens, jades, umhers, soft yellows

white hluegreen up to dark hluegreen, dark

warm green.

LAKE MANYARA, TANZANIA, AFRICA

the title of the talk is This is what I do

This is what I try to do

Tvejust heen in Hydra, Greece, where there

is the tail end of the spring hurst of wild flowers and

the return of some warming sun. In a walled garden I made

notes for this talk. Roses, jasmine, lavender

blooming. I was working a painting on marble, started

last summer. I was with my beautiful wife. We read

poems by Greek poets, drank co_ffee, ate fruit. Close

to ideal. I arrive here in Tondon andfind my notes

way too romantic, complicated, and confused.

Things like "my embrace of the square" — infinite possibilities evolving into repetitious cliches — the belief in the hand (arm to bodyf so trained as it may be^ can still deliver individuality^ or through muscularity^ express and deliver inner workings of the human with infinite subtlety — hand to human connection dance — inner expression brought out / the jasmine window — capturing the evocation^ being about something not a picture of it. Detachment^ transformation^ is balance form? — perfect balance — to follow the dictates of the image /ambiguity — inquietant — oppositionalforces — opposites^equals — yin^yang acknowledged and sllowed to turn into feelings creating an elevated sense which puts you back in touch with being human in this environment. Subject matter — I acknowledge nature and form as my guides — form as incorrectable — form as the incorrectable attainment.

Stop the motion^freeze the energy^ only to show the motion^ keep it moving^ retaining the energy. "Perpetuate the validity of vagueness." "Pictures must be miraculous" Mark Rothko In the Acropolis Museum — the Greek light on

the marhle of the sculptures — it^s workings everything becomes enhanced — the Peplos Kore — in perspective — in the distance. Giacometti — the specifics of her subtleties the light J the marble. Images quivering on the brink of becoming alive.

I like to work within given restraints — a given shape J a wall, a specific space.

Hike number systems — I have worked with a grid of ^ and j —

^ representing the elements and ^ the Trinity

And I had a numerologistfriend who told me my number was 6.

So I made a painting called The Propitious Garden of Plane Image

(^Plane Image is just another way I refer to myself or the studio or

whatever).

The painting was made up of 6 panels — each with 6 colors^

they were /fx 6 — which is i/f — which is 6.1 was beginning to feel

this was some sort of ultimate self-portrait.

I showed two of them in a show at the Modern^ in New York. I

invited my friend Jeffrey to come to the openings and he said^

''Why was I invited?"And I said^ "You said my number was 6.

Tve made all these paintings." He said^ ''Your number is Ij."

So now Vm working on Ij, I call them Stele paintings.

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