It is with some relief then, to find the Barbican presenting this first exhibition of Robert Ryman’s work in over 30 years. After recovering from an Art Week clogged with fevered egos, there is welcome respite here with an artist interested in ‘The Real Thing’. Meaning, the act of creating art, not trying to say anything with it. His predominantly white, minimalist work, concentrates on the movement of a brush, the depth of paint, the very act of mark-making; he said he was trying to “paint the paint”. The fittings, the nails and brackets used to hang his work from…
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