Robert Ryman: The Real Thing 1
Fine Arts Exhibition
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing 2
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing 3

Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

At Barbican Centre

Barbican

🎨"few makers in any medium who have come closer to perfection" (Aaron Betsky)
πŸ’‘Move around the room, the paintings change with the light
🎟️Pay what you can slots every Thursday evening and Friday morning

Robert Ryman spent sixty years asking "how to paint" rather than "what to paint," covering canvases in white and turning brushstrokes, texture, and light into the entire subject. This retrospective of 60+ works rewards slow looking, and the paintings shift and breathe as you move.

Contemporary art
Slow looking
Brutalist venue
Minimalist painting
Recommendation

Thursday, October 15,
5:00 PM

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