João Maria Gusmão:
Rothko in a Jar
Description
Description
João Maria Gusmão
Rothko in a Jar, 2025
Fujicolor Crystal Archive glossy paper
RA4 photo reversal print
20,3 x 25,4 cm / 8 x 10 in.
Unique within a series of 20 + Artist set edition
The work will be sold unframed.
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About
About
Introducing, for the true art lover, an authentic art souvenir for the sojourns!
Feast your eyes on Rothko in a Jar: a pickled panorama for your perceptual pleasure.
A must-have for your culinary corner, your sacred shelf, your kitchen’s kitschiest curiosity cabinet.
João Maria Gusmão has conjured not one but twenty of these uncanny conserves for this special gallery edition.
Behold your own affordable color field relic—true yet teasingly fake, eternally embalmed in the artistic brine of analogue photography.
Brewed in the artist’s chemical cauldron and darkroom dungeon, this is no mere replica—it’s a photochemical RA4 reversal marvel, an exquisite artifact of instant film photography: bottled brushstrokes on light-sensitive paper, a mummified masterpiece preserved for the ages.
Forget the flimsy knockoffs—a Rothko T-shirt? A Rothko pencil case?
Dare to own the paradox.
This is the real-ish deal: a shimmering shrine to silence, a devotional jar of distilled contemplation—an art fact truly worthy of the Latvian luminary of lamentation.
It murmurs of stillness, spiritual hush, and mystic melancholia—art you can own, hold, and honor.
Buy now—or forever forgo this fabulous folly.
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Shipping and Taxes
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Introducing, for the true artlover, an authentic art souvenir for the sojourns!
Feast your eyes on Rothko in a Jar: a pickled panorama for your perceptual pleasure.
A must-have for your culinary corner, your sacred shelf, your kitchen’s kitschiest curiosity cabinet.
João Maria Gusmão has conjured not one but twenty of these uncanny conserves for this special gallery edition.
Behold your own affordable color field relic—true yet teasingly fake, eternally embalmed in the artistic brine of analogue photography.
Brewed in the artist’s chemical cauldron and darkroom dungeon, this is no mere replica—it’s a photochemical RA4 reversal marvel, an exquisite artifact of instant film photography: bottled brushstrokes on light-sensitive paper, a mummified masterpiece preserved for the ages.
This is the real-ish deal: a shimmering shrine to silence, a devotional jar of distilled contemplation—an art fact truly worthy of the Latvian luminary of lamentation.
It murmurs of stillness, spiritual hush, and mystic melancholia—art you can own, hold, and honor.
Buy now—or forever forgo this fabulous folly.
FOCUS
Rally all internauts!
Sies + Höke has the pleasure of gracing you with a timely selection of annotated vignettes from the work of João Maria Gusmão—a peripatetic and tragicomic artist of Portuguese origin, born in Lisbon in the year MCMLXXIX.
Flatland—its title borrowed from Edwin Abbott’s speculative novel—brings together a
compelling selection of Gusmão’s most urgent recent works, unearthed
from his studio, alongside his latest major project, Animal Farm, previously exhibited at 99CANAL in New York and Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon. Rooted in the long-standing tradition of interrogating and critically reframing the symbolic and material power of 'the vile metal,' this body of work engages in a hermeneutical unpacking of capital’s historical entanglements with violence, production, alienation, and ecological ruin—an ancient yet persistently relevant concern we trust will resonate with contemporary audiences.
This presentation is enriched by the insightful audio contributions of Marco
Bene and PostBrothers—companions and comrades of the artist—whose deconstructive commentary extends and refracts the work’s inclinations and declinations.
