Martin Barré

By isolating a painting's basic components ? line, surface, gesture, color ? Martin Barré produced a body of work that is unique in the history of abstract painting. At the beginning of his career in mid-century Paris, Barré abandoned gestural expressionism and replaced it with his own systems-based compositional methods. As he later said of his paintings, ?Seriality is the means of producing them. It is not so much the paintings that make the series as the series that produce the paintings.? His pioneering approach went on to anticipate and influence much of today's most innovative painting.00Exhibition: Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA (17.02.-07.04.2018)