Buildings, streets and entire cities bump against one another. Innumerable details urban - housing block windows, city maps - overwhelm your field of vision. Black squiggles race through the surface surrounded by flashes of color: a beam of yellow, a red parallelogram.
The world that Julie Mehretu painting is surprisingly chaotic. Even when I'm with the American artist in your workspace soaked light with views to the Hudson River in New York (Martha Stewart has her Office a few floors below), mood in the Studio is exactly the opposite: quiet, collected, in total control. She is preparing to anyone but only two large exhibition - one in New York, one in London--and a couple of assistants quietly help put the final touches of meticulous of his latest paintings. Views of bird of the cities in the Middle East are glued to the wall. Shelves groan with volumes on everything from the history of Ethiopia French genre painting; his study is both a think-tank and a laboratory. And wife of Mehretu, artist Jessica Rankin, has ceased - it is preparing to leave the city, and they have two children hours to put in order.
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