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Ad Reinhardt
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Ad Reinhardt鈥檚 birth, David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of the artist鈥檚 work in collaboration with the Ad Reinhardt Foundation. Organized by curator Robert Storr, this will be the gallery鈥檚 inaugural exhibition of Reinhardt鈥檚 work.
Comprised entirely of works on loan from public and private collections, this exhibition will include the first room of Reinhardt鈥檚 "ultimate" black paintings to be seen in New York since the 1991 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Reinhardt describes these paintings as: 鈥淎 square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no鈥揷ontrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free鈥揾and, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non鈥搇inear, no hard-edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings鈥攁 pure, abstract, non鈥搊bjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting鈥攁n object that is self鈥揷onscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti鈥揳rt).鈥�
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On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Ad Reinhardt鈥檚 birth, David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of the artist鈥檚 work in collaboration with the Ad Reinhardt Foundation. Organized by curator Robert Storr, this will be the gallery鈥檚 inaugural exhibition of Reinhardt鈥檚 work.
Comprised entirely of works on loan from public and private collections, this exhibition will include the first room of Reinhardt鈥檚 "ultimate" black paintings to be seen in New York since the 1991 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Reinhardt describes these paintings as: 鈥淎 square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no鈥揷ontrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free鈥揾and, painted surface (glossless, textureless, non鈥搇inear, no hard-edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings鈥攁 pure, abstract, non鈥搊bjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting鈥攁n object that is self鈥揷onscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti鈥揳rt).鈥�
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