Minimalism at Spruth and Magers gallery, London W1.

A superb new show of Minimalist work, ‘Crossroads’, has just opened at Spruth Magers in Grafton Street. I went after reading Waldemar Januszczak in the ‘Times’, and it is every bit as good as he says. The colours are absolutely mouthwatering.

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Craig Kauffman, Untitled 1969. This piece is made from rolled plexiglass. I love the pared down vision of Minimalism, the fact that it is what it is, a beautiful colour and an almost ethereal floating object.

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Donald Judd, Stack. A ladder like object going up into the sky. He liked clean lines and uncluttered spaces. Again a wonderful inky colour.

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Robert Morris, Fountain. Robert Morris was a polymath. He was a sculptor, a conceptual artist, a Land Artist, a serious writer in that he defined Minimalism as a movement, but also a dancer and choreographer. I love his felt sculptures, and this one is particularly fine and wonderfully streamlined. Generally, they are more complicated, like the other one in the exhibition, and the one at Tate Britain. I know some might think this piece particularly austere, but the shape is wonderful, and the deep dark colour adds to it. There is almost something cartoonish about it as though it was from a Walt Disney film.

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Craig Kauffman. Another ethereal floating piece.

I should also mention that the Gallery itself is in a most beautiful building, a eighteen century townhouse in Grafton Street corner, with a fine view down Dover Street. A wonderful exhibition and well worth going to, as it is not often possible nowadays to be able to see a collection of Minimalist work of this quality..

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