Robert Barry

ROBERT BARRY (New York, United States, 1936).
Untitled, 1991, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial".
Lithograph on 270 gram Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 1 P.A 35/50.
Signed, dated and numbered by hand.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined by diverse pictorial movements and trends.
American artist Robert Barry is crowned as one of the fathers of conceptual art, which represents the culmination of several movements in the elimination of the object in favor of the concept. Raised in the Bronx, Barry defends a minimalist art that evokes mental states that lead the viewer to a temporary abstraction. The artist himself confesses that he does not want his works to be read as part of a studied text, but as parts of a work of art, that is, Barry uses language as a way of indicating what art is. In this way, throughout his artistic production, he turns the word into his working material, thus becoming an artist who reflects on the "vision-reading" of the word and the aesthetic experience one has in space.