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John Marx, AIA, releases first book of watercolor paintings and poems |
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Dreams, poetry, and watercolors comprise architect's vision.
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NEW YORK, NY.- ÉtudesThe Poetry of Dreams + Other Fragments (ORO Editions, February 2020), by architect John Marx, AIA, features 84 watercolors juxtaposed with 40 short poems that complement the observational and existential qualities of his art. The books design, a deep collaboration with graphic artist Jeremy Mende, has been carefully composed to explore the relationship between words and watercolors, thought and emotion, life and art.
Marxs watercolors are a compelling example of how an architects thought process informs the visual arts. Subtle and quiet, they are nonetheless captivating works in how they convey notions of place, space, perspective, time, and beauty.
Writes Marx: While the watercolors emphasize emotional content, there is a narrative to each of these paintingssometimes left intentionally obscurewhich invites you to craft your own storyline. In that they all originated as daydreamsof places not in existence, places invented, and sometimes as a collective memory of placeseach watercolor is, in a sense, an unwritten poem, which has found expression visually, that invites you to inhabit your dreams.
Marxs watercolors are examples of a humane approach to conveying emotional meaning in relation to the constructed and natural environments. His chosen subject matter reads as built landscapes that heighten the role of the manmade, yet are wholly in balance with the sphere of nature. Intrinsically understanding the sentiment of man and nature is an important point Marx relays to audiences.
Unlike metal and concrete, which architects regularly employ to express themselves, watercolor as a method of working has an inherent fragility. Marxs works celebrate the poetic immediacy ingrained in the medium. The artists hand is forever present and acts as a tangible foil to an increasingly virtual world.
The paintings and poems are divided into eight distinct sections: moments in time; apertures; absent nature; objects in nature; without intention; approaching abstraction; deconstructing perception; improvisations. Four essays look at the works from different angles: Owen Hopkins, Senior Curator at Sir John Soanes Museum in London, ponders their place in the canon of painting; Pierluigi Serraino looks at architectural drawings and watercolors from an art historical perspective; Marx explores the subject from the point of view of the creative process; Laura Iloniemi places the watercolors within the context of Modern American painting.
Marx is Co-Founding Design Principal and Chief Artistic Officer of Form4 Architecture, which believes architecture is the art of giving form to ideas. The award-winning firm specializes in creating poetically moving and conceptually thoughtful environmentswhether for tech offices, mixed-use developments, or residencesthat respond as equally to the topography of a site, as they do to the people they serve. Together with Form4 principals Robert J. Giannini, Paul Ferro, and James Tefend, Marx was the winner of the 2017 American Prize for Architecture.
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