MWR Series
May We Rise
MWR -RRI
May we rise / RBR
Unprimed Linen, Charcoal, fixative.
216 x 107cm
85” x 42”
Sept 8 - 30 Sept, 2019
May we rise / RBR
Unprimed Linen, Charcoal, fixative.
216 x 107cm
85” x 42”
Sept 8 - 30 Sept, 2019
A TRIPTYCH
MWR RRII
Unprimed Linen Charcoal fixative
216 x 107cm
85” x 42”
Sept 9 - 8 oct , 2019
MWR-RRII as a part of a triptych in the studio
THE WITNESS
(for JM)
May We Rise serie.
Everything Is Already Given
Tous Est Déjà Disposé
Nov 1, 2019 -May 12, 2020
UnPrimed Linen, Charcoal.
Accompanying music, played in permanent loop, Elgar’s Nimrod Variations.
A CUADRIPTYCH
209” x 80”
1st panel: 55”x 80”
2nd panel: 51”x 80”
3rd panel: 47”x 80”
4th panel: 55”x 80”
530 x 202 cm
UnPrimed Linen, Charcoal.
Accompanying music, played in permanent loop, Elgar’s Nimrod Variations.
A CUADRIPTYCH
209” x 80”
1st panel: 55”x 80”
2nd panel: 51”x 80”
3rd panel: 47”x 80”
4th panel: 55”x 80”
530 x 202 cm
1st panel
55”x 80”
55”x 80”
2nd panel
51”x 80”
130x208 cm
51”x 80”
130x208 cm
3rd panel (with sunrays)
47” x 80”
120 x 208 cm
47” x 80”
120 x 208 cm
4th panel
55” x 80“
140 x 208 cm
55” x 80“
140 x 208 cm
In the process of becoming ALIVE I have to be petrified, and awaken, by breaking the spell of the catastrophic horror of the situation
metamorphosing into a Cypress becoming ur historical, primal , essential as we enter the realm of magic
The Witness,
for JM,
Everything is Already Given.
May We Rise serie.
This canvas is part of the serie MWR, and while the previous MWR works are related in their proportions to a Rauschenberg work (hanged in Nice’ Musee d’Art Modern) this work draws inspiration for its proportions from a Joan Mitchell Cuadriptych revisited at the Met on Nov 2019. I worked several weeks with paper collages, trying to figure out the work format and proportions. Then, many collages after, a final collage was ready to serve as an “unterlagen”, an underlying plan, and all 4 empty canvases were hanged in my studio. it was mid March 2020 and pandemia and confinement started. Thus, work became a daily ritual. a Cypress a day (and, of course, there were no cypress days as well as two cypresses days). The collage plan, as all underlying plans are, and should be, suffered many changes and when the last cypress was drawn, there were 74 trees. 74 miraculous Cypresses. This notion of the miraculous was accompanied by a striking realization, that in Gimatria,
which is an ancient Hebrew mystic practice, where every letter represents a number, 70 would correspond to the letter ע (aiin) and 4 to ד (dalet), which in turn represent two words :
ED - a witness and AD - eternal.
It was a striking realization and a vibrating moment, as if a sign was sent: everything, winter storms as well as summer breeze, will flow to a calm river. Everything is Already Given.
Detail . A Cypress in the 4th panel
answering to A’s comment: yes, these last works, these drawings, (MWR-RRI, MWR-RRII) has a sense of an archive, at the same time the intervened printed canvases in the “WB Prints Archives serie” become in a way a sort of drawings. I am interested in this swaying and blurriness.
