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É«¿Ø´«Ã½ Exhibition

Rothko

26 September 2008 – 1 February 2009
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Rothko

É«¿Ø´«Ã½ presents an exhibition by one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years.

É«¿Ø´«Ã½'s iconic 'Rothko Room' works are reunited for the first time with works from Japan. The Seagram Murals were originally commissioned for The Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building New York.

Rothko’s iconic paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles saturated with colour, are among the most enduring and mysterious created by an artist in modern times. In the exhibition his paintings glow meditatively from the walls in deep dark reds, oranges, maroons, browns, blacks, and greys.

The exhibition will also focus on other work in series, such as the Black-Form paintings, his large-scale Brown and Grey works on paper, and his last series of Black on Grey paintings, created in the final decade of his life from 1958–70.

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Rothko

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Bankside
London SE1 9TG
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Dates

26 September 2008 – 1 February 2009

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Times Newspapers Ltd

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    Shadows of Light II (Music from the Seagram Murals): Autumn

    Shadows of Light II (Music from the Seagram Murals), after Mark Rothko, by Jim Aitchison. A new version of music commissioned from the composer by Tate for the 2008/2009 Mark Rothko exhibition at É«¿Ø´«Ã½, supported by the PRSF Foundation for New Musi

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    Shadows of Light II (Music from the Seagram Murals): Closing

    Shadows of Light II (Music from the Seagram Murals), after Mark Rothko, by Jim Aitchison. A new version of music commissioned from the composer by Tate for the 2008/2009 Mark Rothko exhibition at É«¿Ø´«Ã½

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    Shadows of Light II (Music from the Seagram Murals): Opening

    Composed by Jim Aitchison, Performed by Kreutzer Quartet

  • BP British Art Displays: Turner/Rothko

    BP British Art Displays: Turner/Rothko: Press related to past exhibition at Tate Britain.

  • Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals

    Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals; past exhibition at Tate Liverpool

  • Of redemption and damnation

    Carter Ratcliff

    Rothko believed he was "producing an art that would last for 1,000 years". It was a sentiment that was in stark contrast to the new, brash, secularised art emerging in New York in the 1960s.

  • Landscapes of the mind

    Brice Marden

    Simon Grant talks to Brice Marden about his enduring fascination with Rothko’s paintings.

  • The History and Manufacture of Lithol Red, a Pigment Used by Mark Rothko in his Seagram and Harvard Murals of the 1950s and 1960s

    Harriet A. L. Standeven

    For his 1950s and 1960s Seagram and Harvard murals, American artist Mark Rothko employed lithol red – a highly fugitive pigment that is more commonly associated with the printing industry than artists’ paints. Some of the murals have faded, which has significant consequences for our appreciation of Rothko’s work today. This paper discusses the chemistry, manufacture, availability and end-use of lithol red in order to gain a greater understanding of how Rothko might have viewed the pigment.

  • Tools to Understand: An Evaluation of the Interpretation Material used in É«¿Ø´«Ã½â€™s Rothko Exhibition

    Renate Meijer and Minnie Scott

    Renate Meijer and Minnie Scott, Tools to Understand: An Evaluation of the Interpretation Material used in É«¿Ø´«Ã½â€™s Rothko Exhibition, Tate Papers report, no.11

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    Mark Rothko

    1903–1970
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