Rothko in Florence
edited by Christopher Rothko, Elena Geuna, with the collaboration of Marco Galvan, Kate Rothko Prizel, with a piece by David Breslin, Gerhard Wolf, Marco Cianchi,
216
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1^
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2026
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Catalogues
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ITA,ENG
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ISBN 9791254633335
«Writing about Rothko is always an exercise in conjecture. His paintings – regardless of period – do not immediately convey their subject matter. Nebulous, mysterious, incongruous (some would argue murky, turbid, empty) they challenge us to make sense of what we see, perhaps through the rather indirect avenue of what we feel.» Christopher Rothko
On the occasion of the Rothko in Florence exhibition, hosted from March 14th to August 23rd, 2026, at Palazzo Strozzi, Marsilio Arte publishes the eponymous catalogue edited by Christopher Rothko and Elena Geuna.
The Rothko in Florence exhibition, promoted and organised by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in collaboration with Museo di San Marco (Ministero della Cultura – Direzione regionale Musei nazionali Toscana) and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, brings together an extraordinary corpus of works by the American master Mark Rothko. The show features paintings never exhibited in Italy before, sourced from prestigious private collections and major international museums such as MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
This volume explores the artist’s stylistic evolution, beginning with his early figurative stages influenced by Expressionism and Surrealism before arriving at the iconic abstract color fields of the 1950s and 1960s. The heart of the narrative remains his 1950 trip to Italy, a transformative experience that fueled Rothko’s fascination with masters such as Giotto, Michelangelo, and Fra Angelico. Through a selection of works created between the 1930s and 1970, the catalogue highlights how color and light became tools for creating meditative spaces in constant tension with classical tradition.
The publication opens with essays by the curators Christopher Rothko, Rothko in Florence. Rothko in Rome. Stone, Space and Spirit, and Elena Geuna, Mark Rothko: The Silence of Color. It is further enriched by contributions from David Breslin, Chaos, Control, Contemplation: Rothko’s Lesson; Gerhard Wolf, Rothko’s Giotto; and Mark Rothko and/in Florence by Marco Cianchi, offering a choral vision of Rothko’s legacy.
The catalogue includes a detailed chronology, curated by Marco Galvan, Christopher Rothko, and Kate Rothko Prizel, illustrated with previously unpublished images from the family archives, allowing readers to retrace the life and career of a central figure of modern art.
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