Mark Rothko

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Dark Palette, Mark Rothko at Pace Gallery

 

I have often wondered what it would be like to be surrounded by Rothkos. In theory, I could have had the experience at the Four Seasons Restaurant and now it is too late, Pace Gallery's exhibition of Rothko’s Dark Palette works gave me all that and more. What it is like is, like walking into a Lenticular world, in permanent motion, where everything is not as it seems. Any gesture, mental or physical, towards or away from an object produces a shift in reality, so you end up standing still and staring because that is all you can do without falling over. Eventually hypnosis takes control and you succumb to Rothko’s determination to take you into the mind’s eye, and thus to the troubled soul and it is anyone’s guess as to how to emerge from this state.