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Untitled: [22] Justein Chenberger Dec. 2002 Chenberger’s work appropriates the Maleyvich-like rejection of meaning in Rothko’s famous Orange and Yellow painting while at the same time hearkening back to Alberti’s call for the artist to act as a “second God” and create in the work of art a beautiful fiction with inner coherence. The duality of colors in Untitled: [22] implies a distinct dichotomy, but within that dichotomy exist a diversity of relationships between the different components of the work that acknowledge the variegations in texture at the border of the two colors in Rothko’s painting as well as ultimately imply a need to question the viewer’s initial impulse to think in terms of binary oppositions. Chenberger has referred to this work as a “celebration of palindrome and the generative powers of duality.” |