by Alexandra Rozenman

Artwork Description

Falling in Love with Matisse

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The subject and color palette of “Falling in Love with Matisse (after the conversation)” evokes world-known painting by Matisse called “The Conversation”. In this painting Rozenman once again makes a statement about Modernism, Art History and Eternal Return. Rozenman has “transplanted” in her painting the recognizable bright cobalt blue wallpaper, the window, and the black chair from Matisse’s original painting. At the same time she creates a historical and geographical dialogue between before and after. Inside her painting the lovers of the original painting move to the small Communal apartment making us think about the puzzling aftermath of the Conversation between them. What did they talk about in France at these times? Nationalism? Socialism? Immigration? Love? Art? Cats? Paris? Had they visited Saint Petersburg between 1908-1912 where they had already contacted some of the underground Bolsheviks dreaming of bloody revolutions? Just opening the episode in the Matisse painting to all these questions challenges and amuses our imagination… But wait: they have a boombox with them? Rozenman’s time traveling machine has a lot of twists and turns…

Artwork Details

Medium: Collage

Genre: Figurative