The walls of Ark De Mothko are ordinary manufactured walls of houses that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what people called retinal art. By simply choosing the wall and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the wall became art. As the process involved the least amount of interaction between artist and art, it represented the most extreme form of minimalism up to that time.
Ark De Mothko is not interested in what he called usual retinal art — art that was made by artist hands — and sought other methods of expression. As an antidote to this type of retinal art he began fixing walls at a time (2013) when the term was commonly used in the United States to describe walls pitures to distinguish them from handmade paintings.
He select the pieces on the basis of visual indifference, and the selections reflect his sense of irony, humor and ambiguity: «…it was always the visual example that came first, not the idea or plot," he said: «…a colour of denying the possibility of defining art».
The only definition of walls published under the name of Ark De Mothko (or his initials, Mothko, to be precise) exists in Mothko Dictionnaire of Walls: «an ordinary wall elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist».
Ark De Mothko limits his weekly output of walls via his website, making no more than 20 in his decade. He feels that only by limiting output, could he avoid the trap of his own taste. Though he was aware of the contradiction of avoiding taste, yet also selecting an object.
Taste these walls, «good» or «bad», he feels is the «enemy of art».
