Robert Irwin — White Cube, Paris
White Cube gallery offers a suspended moment with an unexpected exhibition of Robert Irwin, a major artist rarely shown in France. For this final project conceived during his lifetime, the American artist composed a hushed, intimate score, manipulating light like a musician of silence. There is nothing spectacular here—only a staging of the context itself: as in all his work, Irwin favors the simplicity of what is self-evident over overt display.
His installations, all relatively recent, appear to us in an almost frontal relationship, yet never without a certain elusive quality—imposing in their formal precision, softened by curvature. The aesthetic sense is strong, sculptural, with a cutting of space that blends the rigor of abstraction with poetic materiality. The space becomes image-in-motion, a field crossed by flows, perceptions, and potentialities. Through its cadence, the exhibition forms a visual thought that never asserts itself but instead suggests, opens, diverges.
Robert Irwin, White Cube Paris, 10 avenue de Matignon, 75008 Paris – 21 May – 19 July 2025 – From Tuesday to Saturday (10am – 12:30pm, 1:30 – 6pm)
