Robert Ryman

The solo exhibition of works by the American painter Robert Ryman, which features a series of works created from the early 1960s to the 21st century, concisely showing the materials, supports, painting techniques and ways of interacting with the wall that the artist used in his sixty-year artistic career.

Widely acclaimed for his tactile works, he uses a variety of painting mediums, creating a variety of white pigments on supports ranging from paper, canvas, linen, aluminum, vinyl and newsprint. The artist abandoned the self-contained system of figurative and abstract imagery, and instead focused on the physical gesture of applying paint to the support. Neither obsessed with the emotional qualities of gesturalism nor seeking to eliminate the painterly mark; rather, his work is a fresh and sensitive exploration of the visual, material, and experiential qualities of the medium, which exist in dialogue with its surroundings.

The exhibition encompasses the best of Ryman’s paintings from the 1960s, demonstrating the breadth and evolution of his practice during this formative decade of his career. His understanding of painting reflects his unique investigation and deconstruction of the formal and material qualities of painting, as well as his analytical and intuitive exploration of the medium. These paintings are inseparable from line, which is both a physical mark and a conceptual form, mainly related to other elements of a particular composition.

Robert Ryman

Date: 28 May - 1 Aug 2025

Gallery: @davidzwirner

Address: 5–6/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong

・・・

#RobertRyman