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Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt

By (artist) Sherrie Levine / Text by Ad Reinhardt
Published by David Zwirner Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

The renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art-historical canon—this time taking Ad Reinhardt’s Blue Paintings as a point of departure.

Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 (2018) is a new body of work by Levine that continues her ongoing investigation of color separated from its representational function. Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings held at David Zwirner, New York, in 2017, Levine has created abstract restatements of the twenty-eight works that were on view, making use of pixilation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. This work revisits a technique first employed by Levine in her 1989 group of woodcut prints Meltdown, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists’ iconic paintings.

Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt is published on the occasion of Levine’s eponymous solo exhibition at David Zwirner’s Upper East Side location in New York in 2019. This publication features full color reproductions of Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 and includes the 1965 text “Reinhardt Paints a Picture,” in which Reinhardt famously interviewed himself.

Product Details

  • Publisher: David Zwirner Books (October 8, 2019)
  • Length: 76 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781644230091

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“As always with Levine, perfect craft secretes choked emotion. It’s as if somebody somewhere were angry about something, but incommunicado. Whose problem is this? Ours, alas, on account of the work’s remorseless beauty.”

– Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

“Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings, Levine has created abstract restatements of the twenty-eight works that were on view, making use of pixelation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value.”

– Tique

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