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Tuesday, 13-May-2014
My relationship with Mark Rothko's works is something I have never properly understood.
I am not sure why; early exposure via the 'Rothko Room' in the old Tate (pre split), subsequently learning his life story or the major retrospective twenty years ago, since when I've taken every opportunity to see his work.
The vandalism of one of the Seagram murals left me rather numb and in a odd state of denial.
As one might expect, I was pleased to hear that 'Black on Maroon' had been restored but I was suprised by a sense of elation on seeing a Google photo of the rehanging.
These days it is routine to expect that scientists will always sort things out. But the conservators in this video emerge as heroic master-craftswomen. And Rothko's work continues to shine and surprise and touch even through the microscope. Beautifully moving.
