VSOP Projects opened in May, and many people stopped in for the first time during Greenport Village's monthly, which launched on the first Friday of June. The estate had to enlist Tnemec, a new manufacturer, to match the tone and introduce a safe replacement for lead, which was the toxic ingredient that gave the artist the flattening effect he sought. The original Signcraft Red paint he used in the 1960s was from the Japan Colors line of Ronan, a company that has been out of business for decades. The artist once said, “I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.” He died in 1976, and the estate has been beset with problems over what to do about the deterioration of the surfaces of the red sculpture, often originally painted over unprimed steel using a thin mixture that gave the matte surface he wanted. Horne, who lives and works in Brooklyn and studied painting at Ohio University under, is unashamedly brazen. I was already enthusiastically praising the work when, with a conspiratorial grin, Weiskopf related to me its fantastic secret: The fragments are painted in the scarce, now well-nigh impossible to procure, original red oil paint, his signature tone. The nine pieces, like fragments of a bas relief, are perfectly hung in the stairwell even if the viewer has to do a bit of work to find it.
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