The first retrospective in 30 years on the immensely influential abstractionist, theorist, art-world scourge and forefather of Minimalism
The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in Europe, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else illustrates Ad Reinhardt-s tremendous influence on Abstract Expressionism as well as subsequent contemporary art styles. Reinhardt-s paintings are rarely representational and are instead composed of geometrics and eventually only color: canvases of all red, all blue, all black.
Organized with the institutional support of the Ad Reinhardt Foundation, this catalog includes a selection of approximately 50 paintings and works on paper, spanning Reinhardt-s career from early drawings, paintings and collages to later works characterized by a progressive reduction of color and form. Another focal point of the volume is Reinhardt-s passions and artistic pursu
