142. ROBERT
RYMAN
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Classico 5
1968
Synthetic polymer paint on twelve sheets of paper
overall: (236.9 x 224.8 cm)
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Orange Painting, ( Between 1955 and 1959)
Oil on canvas
(71.4 x 71.4 cm)
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Conversion ,2003,
Linoleum cut on aluminum plate, with two nails
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee. ( USA)
Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York City
Studies:
949–1950, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Cookeville,
Tennessee
Themes and
style:
Ryman is often classified as a
minimalist, but he prefers to be known as a "realist" because he is
not interested in creating illusions, but only in presenting the materials he
has used in compositions at their face value.
Techniques:
Is
developed in paintings and sculpture
Exhibitions
Ryman had his first one man show at Paul Bianchini's gallery,
New York, in 1967 at the age of 36; his first show in Europe came the following
year at the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich. One year later, Ryman was
included in When Attitudes Become Form, a seminal exhibition of works by
Minimalist and Conceptual artists organized by the Kunsthalle Bern.[2] His
first one man show at a museum was in 1972 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
City, displaying thirty-eight of Ryman’s works from 1965 to 1972.[8] Ryman's
works were represented in documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), and 7 (1982), in
Kassel, in the Venice Biennale (1976, 1978, 1980), and in the Whitney Biennial
(1977, 1987, 1995). His first retrospective was organized by the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam, in 1974.[11] In 1992, a major touring retrospective of
Ryman's paintings was mounted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery,
including venues such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in
Madrid, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis.
Representative
Galleries:
Pace Gallery
Xavier Hufkens
In
his own words:
"I am not a picture painter. I work with
real light and space, and since real light is an important aspect of the
paintings, it always presents some problems."
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more Information: