Robert Barry – Works from 1964–2024
ROBERT BARRY
works 1964–2024
5 September – 2 November, 2024
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg
hamburg
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Untitled, 1964, Acrylic and pencil on canvas, 101,6 x 83,8 cm
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Barry’s concern with both space and surfaces has been central to his practice. He has often used minimalist linear grids on the flat pane of a canvas and in the three dimensional exhibition space. Using wires or transparent nylon cord he created installations that clearly define specific areas, thereby revealing empty spaces in a room. In his early monochrome paintings, such as the one presented in the exhibition, he reduces his intervention to elementary colors, simple geometric forms and blank canvas. Referring within the fabric rectangle to the space in which the painted surface is exhibited.