Published by Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, this catalogue presents a precise body of work spanning the years 1957, 1959, 1960, and 1965. Barré’s practice reduces painting to its essential operations, where line, spray, and interval define the surface with clarity. Composition shifts from arrangement toward activation, where each mark carries its own necessity.

A restrained yet exact language emerges. Absence, spacing, and tension hold equal weight to gesture. Barré’s paintings avoid overt expression and instead produce a measured intensity grounded in discipline and control. His work remains a key reference within postwar abstraction, where reduction sharpens the field rather than diminishing it.

Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, operating between Berlin and Bremen, maintains a program dedicated to works on paper and the discipline of the line. This publication situates Barré within that context of precision and connoisseurship.

Details
Publisher: Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner
Type: Exhibition catalogue

See also
“Propositions for a Painting with Many Lives: Martin Barré”, Frieze.