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28/1/2003

Robert Ryman

Haunch of Venison Yard, London

Haunch of Venison is pleased to present an exhibition of more than 20 new paintings (2001-2002) by American artist Robert Ryman. Working in various dimensions on canvas and linen, in these works Ryman continues to use of a range of white pigments, many including earthy tones such as green, umber or red. A full colour catalogue with an introductory essay by Yve-Alain Bois, the Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art and Chair of the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University, will accompany the exhibition.
For Ryman, the expression and emphasis of the materiality of painting have always been of primary importance. His manipulation of painting's elements - the paint itself, its application, and its support - in addition to his attention to the conditions of a painting's installation reflect those concerns. Yve-Alain Bois states: Support, colour, brushstrokes: these constitute the obvious 'subject matter' of the latest series of canvases by Robert Ryman. Not that this is the first time Ryman isolated these elements (in the chemical sense of the term) in order to study their interaction ''But after so many works that investigated'' whatever plays a part in the material production and reception of a painting the present exhibition is perhaps the first to gather canvases in which nothing else is involved but the three essential components of painting since the Renaissance: a return to the basics of basics, so to speak.
Born 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee, Ryman studied at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, before enlisting and serving in the United States Army (1950-52). He relocated to New York City in 1952 where, fifteen years later, he had his first solo exhibition.

Since then, Ryman's work has been the subject of over 80 solo exhibitions in 10 different countries, and was in Documentas 1972, 1977 and 1982, the Venice Biennale 1976, 1978 and 1980, the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, New York 1977, 1987 and 1995 and the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1988). International public collections featuring Ryman's work include: The Art Institute of Chicago; Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona; the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Tate Gallery, London; the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Robert Ryman currently lives and works in New York City.

Image: Robert Ryman, Classico IV, 1968. Acrylic on handmade Classico paper, mounted on foamcore, overall dimensions variable

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