Lot 359 Robert Barry. Untitled (Dark Red, Cross). …

Untitled (Dark Red, Cross). 1994. Acryl und Tinte auf Leinwand. 61 x 61 cm. Verso in den Ecken monogrammiert und datiert sowie mit typographisch beschrifteten Etiketten mit Werksangaben und Hinweisen zur Provenienz. - Insgesamt in sehr gutem und tadellosem Erhaltungszustand.

Konzeptkunst – Holly Solomon Gallery, New York/Privatsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen. - Robert Barry gehört zu den Pionieren der Konzeptkunst und zählt neben Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth und Douglas Huebler zu den prägenden Figuren einer Bewegung, die das Kunstwerk konsequent vom materiellen Objekt ablöste. Neben der Arbeit mit unsichtbaren Medien wie Inertzgasen, Radiowellen und Sprache erschafft Barry seit den 1980er Jahren monochromatische, quadratische Leinwände, auf denen wie auf der vorliegenden Arbeit Wörter in streng logischer Anordnung in fast gleichfarbiger Tinte aufgebracht sind: REGRET, OPPOSITE, LIFE, AVOIDING, INEVITABLE, ROUTINE, INTEND. Erst, wenn der Betrachter sich um das Werk herumbewegt, wird die Sprache enthüllt, Fragen der Unsichtbarkeit und von Zeit und Raum als Wahrnehmungsbedingungen bleiben dabei stets präsent und oszillieren zwischen Reflexion und Kommentar. Das quadratische Format und das Kreuzschema im Werktitel verweisen zugleich auf Barrys Auseinandersetzung mit geometrischer Struktur als konzeptuellem Rahmen.

Conceptual Art – Acrylic and ink on canvas. Monogrammed and dated in the corners on the reverse, and bearing typographically printed labels with details of the work and information on its provenance. - Overall in very good and immaculate condition. - Holly Solomon Gallery, New York/Private collection, Düsseldorf. - Robert Barry is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art and, alongside Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and Douglas Huebler, ranks among the defining figures of a movement that systematically detached the artwork from the physical object. Alongside his work with invisible media such as inert gases, radio waves and language, since the 1980s he has been creating monochromatic, square canvases on which, as in the present work, words are applied in a strictly logical arrangement in ink of almost identical colour: REGRET, OPPOSITE, LIFE, AVOIDING, INEVITABLE, ROUTINE, INTEND. Only when the viewer moves around the work is the text revealed, questions of invisibility and of time and space as conditions of perception remain ever-present, oscillating between reflection and commentary. The square format and the cross-scheme in the work's title simultaneously refer to Barry's engagement with geometric structure as a conceptual framework.

Startprice: 4000 €
Estimate: 6000 €

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