Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World

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Garage Center for Contemporary Art

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We present Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World, the first exhibition ever staged in Moscow by one of the world’s most celebrated artists.

Featuring over a dozen paintings, the exhibition spans twenty years of the artist’s career, from 1949 to 1969, and includes No. 12 (Yellow, Orange, Red on Orange), 1954 as well as monumental studies for all three of Rothko’s famous mural projects: The Seagram Murals, The Holyoke Center at Harvard University and the Rothko Chapel at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. The exhibition includes one of Rothko’s last grey and black paintings from 1969.

 

"Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks"*
*Mark Rothko and Adolph Gotllieb manifesto, published in 1943 in the New York Times