Exhibition // Barbican Centre
Robert Ryman
✨ AI-written summary:Exhibition of Robert Ryman's white, square-format paintings
- When
- – Starts
Ends - Price
- £20.50Check the venue's page before you go
- Venue
- Barbican CentreSilk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
- Map
- Open in OpenStreetMap ↗51.5201, -0.0955
What's cool ✨ AI note
Paintings built almost entirely from white paint on square formats, by an artist who insisted his work had to be seen in person; surface and brushwork reward slow looking.
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From the listing
‘You have to see the real thing… seeing a real painting is the only way to do it.’ Robert Ryman believed that the best way to experience a painting is in person. His paintings, which mostly use white paint and a square format, reward close looking. …
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Details
- Category
- Exhibition
- Tags
- art-design
- Good for
- solo, a deep dive
- Event page
- https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/robert-ryman-the-real-thing