Ross Bleckner
Subtitle: Paralipsis
By: writing by Marie-Laure Bernadac ; translation by Bernard Wooding
Contributors: Bernadac, Marie-Laure, author; Wooding, Bernard, translation; Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery
Publisher: Maruani Mercier Gallery
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: fre
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9782930487403
Subjects: American Painting; Exhibitions; Flowers in art
Other titles: Paralipsis
Description: They are flowers, but they are not flowers (even if they are still flowers). This is how we could define, simplifying it, the scholarly and mysterious title given by Ross Bleckner to his latest series: Paralipsis. This rhetorical title in fact designates a proposed subject (here flowers) whilst denying it, or more broadly is the device by which an idea is underlined by the pretext that it is too obvious to discuss. What could be more obvious than a flower! 'The rose is without 'why', it flowers because it blooms, has no care for itself, does not ask to be looked at', said the mystic Angelus Silesius. Above all it is a recurring motif charged with multiple meanings, as much throughout the history of painting, as in the artist's work. " - Excerpt from text written by Marie-Laure Bernadac for the exhibition catalogue. Exhibition: Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (09.09.-09.10.2021)
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium from September 9 - October 9, 2021

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