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Deborah Rosenthal |
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Stars,
zig-zags, angles, angels, ovals, edges, curls, curves, flames,
flowers, shells, breaks, bursts, echoes, accents, repetitions, reversals,
reunions—these are the sights and sensations, each sharply etched
in the
imagination, that I recall from our Borromini walks, in the streets
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Rome, one spring not too long ago. |
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Frontis/Facade, 2006
Linocut, 10" x 8" |
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Borromini's symmetries are—must
be—experienced as asymmetries. At least
this is what I've come to understand as I've watched the de-centered,
roughhewn, anxious, playful ovals emerge in D's drypoints and
linoleum-block prints. What D has shown me is that the memories of
Borromini's architecture are not of regularities but of regularities,
not of geometric certainty but of geometric uncertainties. This is
a world
that is anything but Apollonian. |
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Diana of Ephesus, 2006
Drypoint
and engraving, 8" x 6" |
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Borromini is the master of
a somber rococo, a luxuriant asceticism. He can
be witty but marmoreal, and of what other artist can that be said?
He
brings an astonishing gravity to the playfulness of his forms. He
has the
intentness of a child building sand castles, a seriousness about
fantasy,
a sobriety about outrageousness. |
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Dome,
2006
Linocut, 8" x 6" |
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