2022/01/26 by Francisca Pérez-Carreño · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Photographic and Visual Arts #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Cinema History and Criticism
paper · doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayac006
openalex publication_date 2022/01/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
Ad Reinhardt’s retrospective exhibition at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else, brings together a good representation of his work, divided into two sections distinguishable for the objects on display. The first section, Art is Art, exhibits a carefully curated collection of forty-seven paintings by Reinhardt, showing the artist’s evolution from his first cubist-influenced works until his renowned Black Paintings of the 1960s. The second section, Everything Else is Everything Else, displays seventy-one drawings, books and magazine illustrations, and various graphic material created for different occasions. The exhibition presents the work of an artist who regarded the two sides of his work as neatly separated; the first dedicated to art, while the second was about something else. The curators1 have managed to show both together but carefully detached. They give importance to the graphic work, worthy of being exhibited and known, while maintaining a distinction that the artist and the theory of modern art considered fundamental.