Giuseppe Marasco – Mexican Zen Mayan Orange

Colourfield watercolours. Super formalist. Mexican pigments. Affinity to Japanese painting traditions. I’m re-inscribing Mexico’s influence on Ab-EX and American Modernism. Particularly through the celebrated poet and dean of Black Mountain College Charles Olson. He took part in a six month archeological dig in the Yucatan which resulted in his gylphomania profoundly inspiring Twombly’s asemic scribbles, Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell and Franz Klein. The borderline series looks to Frank Bowling’s Map paintings, in turn inspired by Jasper John’s Flag, Alphabet and 0 through to 9 paintings. And Joseph Albers, inspired by rustic Mexican Architecture to create his homage to the square.