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Robert Barry

BornNationalityBased In
1936AmericanN/A
Biography

Robert Barry is, since the mid 1960’s, one of the most important names in North-American conceptual art. After beginning his career with works that presented groups of monochromatic paintings in such a way that they could enhance the exhibition space’s characteristics, Robert Barry completely abandoned conventional painting by 1967 and started a brief series of installations made of transparent nylon cords, inert gases, radiation and electromagnetic energy. All invisible materials through which the artist aligned himself with the quest for the “dematerialization of the art object”, one of the main ideas that drove the development of 1960’s conceptual art. In 1969, in another radical change, Barry abandoned his series of invisible works (convinced that they were still related to a physical and measurable dimension) and begun to incorporate texts into his art, aiming to connect more directly with the spectators and to create a dynamic in which every though or reaction coming from the public in relation to the artist’s texts would became part of the work. Since then, it was through this textual language, its graphic and communicative power that Barry’s work developed and made him (along with names like Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and Mel Bochner) one of the great North-American conceptual artists to work with the many potentialities inside written text. ...

Selected Artworks
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Robert Barry
Untitled, 1981
32 x 32cm
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Robert Barry
Untitled, 1981
25.5 x 25.5cm
Untitled
Robert Barry
Untitled, 1988
152 x 152cm
Untitled
Robert Barry
Untitled, 1990
86 x 86cm
Untitled
Robert Barry
Untitled, 1990
88 x 89cm
Study for “Somehow”
Robert Barry
Study for “Somehow”, 1982
35.6 x 44.5cm
Untitled
Robert Barry
Untitled, 1990
91.4 x 91.4cm
From Stefan...
Robert Barry
From Stefan..., 2009
67.6 x 101.6cm
Suite Six
Robert Barry
Suite Six, 1976
20.6 x 20.6cm
Projection: Rising Circle
Robert Barry
Projection: Rising Circle, 1973
27.9 x 43.3cm
Projection: Circle with Diameter Turning Clockwise
Robert Barry
Projection: Circle with Diameter Turning Clockwise, 1972
27.9 x 43.3cm
Projection: Arrow Moving Left to Right in a Straight Line
Robert Barry
Projection: Arrow Moving Left to Right in a Straight Line, 1972
27.9 x 43.3cm
Projection: Star Moving Left to Right in a Straight Line
Robert Barry
Projection: Star Moving Left to Right in a Straight Line, 1973
27.9 x 43.3cm
Untitled
Robert Barry
Untitled, 2019
30.5 x 30.5cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Performa2007 - New York City
Venice Biennial1972 - Venice
Documenta1972 - Kassel
Biennale de Paris1971 - Paris
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