"JASPER JOHNS: CATENARY". Collectif. Editions Steidl, Göttingen en collaboration avec Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. 2005. Imprimé en Allemagne. Petit in-4, couverture toilée grises sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Non paginé (120p dont 2 dépliantes). Texte en anglais de Scott Rothkopf, illustrés de nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs, 30 vignettes in-texte suivi de 51 photos et enfin 61 vignettes en fin de volume, d'œuvres de Jasper Johns. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme à la Matthew Marks Gallery de New York du 07 Mai au 25 Juin 2005.

 

"…The chalkboard is an apt metaphor here, because the earliest of Johns's "Catenary" paintings, which he began around the time of his MoMA retrospective, consist primarily of thickly painted, empty gray grounds surrounded by trompe l'oeil intimations of wooden frames. Bridge, 1997, which became the first of a series ultimately comprising nineteen paintings, feels almost empty compared with the canvas described above.l Nearly ten feet across, the work contains little more than a diamond pattern running down its right side, two insets of star formations, the outline of a handkerchief "tacked" near the left margin, and a string traversing the picture's surface. It would be untrue to suggest that the canvas broke completely with the past - Johns's works never do - but it did herald a major turn in his art, a new twist in his understanding of his paintings' delicate poise between the pictorial world they contain and the physical one that contains them…" Extrait de "Suspended Animation" par  Scott Rothkopf.

 

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