Robert Barry
- Robert Barry
- Work
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, 2019
Robert Barry (b. 1936, New York) lives and works in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is one of the prominent representatives of the American concept art. From the beginning his work makes a crucial contribution to the Conceptual Art in the late 60's.
Instead of classical materials, he uses maps, photos, writing and language, with whose assistance the artistic ideas can be formulated. From strict linear rasters on canvas he makes his way to installations with wires and transparent nylon threads, which re-clamp a firmly outlined outside or interior. The aspect of the invisible becomes a part of his work.
In the 70's Barry began to work with the medium of the language: he published several book projects and works with Dia installations, in which he shows language fragments on the wall, whose succession is interrupted by the use of empty slides. Barry started with his "word work", in which he defines and arranges the area by written words. Whether on canvas, on walls, on the floor, on glass areas of buildings or on mirrors, these isolated words suddenly contact the viewer, whose mental reaction completes the work.
We have been representing Robert Barry since 1996. In 2001, we edited with him a Mirror Multiple with etched words.
| Selected Exhibitions | |
| 2019 | Robert Barry Ivan Kožarić, Sfeir-Semler Gallery,Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 | Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2015 | Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Robert Barry. All the things I know...1962 to the present, 205 Hudson Street Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Robert Barry, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2013 | Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium Le Consortium, Dijon, France |
| 2012 | Different Times, Different Works, Galleria Massimo, Minini, Brescia, Italy |
| 2011 | Silver Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany Troublesome, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Neapel, Italy Robert Barry: Recent Mirrorpieces, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA |
| 2010 | Robert Barry. Recent Works, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany Words and Music, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 2009 | RB 62-08, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA Word Lists, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2008 | Robert Barry, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London, UK It is, It isn’t live performance, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium Works on Paper from the ‘70’s, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2007 | Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, USA Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium Showcase Alfred Vandaele, Gent, Belgium Galerie Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy |
| 2006 | Hadith: Conversations, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2005 | Galerie Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. 524 West 19th Street New York, USA Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Rainbow: A painting showSfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2004 | Galerie Meert-Rihoux , Brussels, Belgium A Minimal Future? 1958-1968 , MOCA, Los Angeles, USA Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany Aargauer Kunsthaus. Aarau, Switzerland |
| 2003 | Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert , New York, USA |
| 2002 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2001 | McKinsey & Company , Düsseldorf, Germany Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York, USA Lehnbach Haus, Munich, Germany Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1999 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany The Box, Turino, Italy |
| 1997 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1995 | Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels Galerie Klemens Gasser, Cologne, Germany Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1994 | Robert Barry und Haim Steinbach, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1992 | Galerie Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, Italy Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany Art and Projekt, van Krimpen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 | Galerie 57, Madrid, Spain Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Austria Galerie Waßermann, Cologne, Germany Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy |
| 1990 | Centre National de Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France |
| 1989 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Thomas Solomon‘s Garage, Los Angeles, USA |
| 1988 | Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1987 | Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1984 | Robert Barry: Wall Pieces, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France |
| 1983 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Art and Projekt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milano, Italy |
| 1982 | Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
| 1981 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France |
| 1980 | Robert Barry Colour Drawings, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1979 | Robert Barry: New Drawings, Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milano, Italy Again and Again, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 1978 | A Wall Drawing, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA Galerie MTL Brussels, Belgium Robert Barry, 1968 - 1978 Drawings and Publikations, Museum Boulder, Colorado, USA |
| 1977 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France |
| 1976 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1975 | Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Barbara Cusack Gallery, Houston / Texas, USA |
| 1974 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Jack Wendler Gallery, London, United Kingdom Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium Art and Projekt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland Galleria Sperone, Turino, Italy Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| 1973 | Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France |
| 1972 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Jack Wendler Gallery, London, United Kingdom Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium GalleriaToselli, Milano, Italy Art and Projekt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Tate Gallery, London, UK |
| 1971 | Art and Projekt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| 1969 | Seth Siegelaub, Los Angeles, USA Art and Projekt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Galleria Sperone, Torino, Italy |
| 1964 | Westerly Gallery, New York, USA |