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DANCE-A FLIQUE TYCH
16 MM MOVIE EDITED TO VIDEO – 5MIN.

 

GENESIS  [REMIX &FLIQUETYCH]

IN 1990 I BUILT A STUDIO BEHIND AN OLD PINK CHURCH ON MARY STREET IN COCONUT GROVE. THERE I RESUMED IN EARNEST A QUEST FOR THE PERFECT PAINTINGS AND MAKE “FLIQUETYCH” A 16 MM MOVIE OF CHANGING OVERLAPPING DANCE MURALS.

AFTER A YEAR I HAD DEVELOPED A SET OF ‘ICONS’, WHICH EVOLVED INTO A SERIES OF HARD-EDGE MINIMALIST PAINTINGS, TAPED UP AND SPRAYED WITH A SMALL GUN, LIKE YOU PAINT A CAR.

I MEANT THEM TO PORTRAY LIFE’S ARCHETYPES IN UNIQUELY NEW SEMIOTIC – MINIMALIST ABSTRACTIONS; THE SKULL, MAN, WOMAN, OCEAN, DNA, THE COSMOS,AND DANCING FIGURES, PACKING THEM WITH ALL I HAD LEARNED ABOUT PAINTING, ROLAND BARTH’S PRINCIPLES OF SEMIOTICS AND COLOR THEORY.

IN 1991 I MADE THE PIECE CALLED SKULL, A FOUR FOOT SQUARE COMPOSED OF THREE – THREE INCH BANDS OF COLOR; A BLUE SEMICIRCLE IN THE TOP HALF, THE RIGHT ANGLE OF A RED SQUARE BOTTOM LEFT AND THE DIAGONAL SIDE OF A TRIANGLE BOTTOM RIGHT IN YELLOW. THESE REPRESENT THE THREE PRIMARY SHAPES: TRIANGLE – SQUARE AND CIRCLE. I PAINTED THEM EACH A DIFFERENT PRIMARY COLOR: YELLOW-INTELLECT, RED- INSTINCT AND BLUE-EMOTION, WHICH I UNDERSTOOD EPITOMIZED EACH OF THEIR FORMS. THE RESULTING AREAS OF THE RESPECTIVE BANDS OF COLOR TURNED OUT TO BE PRECISELY EQUAL RATIOS OF THE LUMINOSITY OF THE THREE PRIMARIES IN RELATION TO EACH OTHER: THREE TO SIX TO EIGHT, YELLOW – RED – BLUE. ENCASED IN THESE BANDS OF PRIMARY FORMS/COLORS WAS THE ICONIC SHAPE OF THE SKULL IN PROFILE, WHICH I SPRAY-PAINTED IN AN EERIE LUMINESCENT BONE WHITE. I HAD…. PAINTED GOD?

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