Studio Notes | Lucas Reiner, July 2026
Renaissance Removal Paintings marks new territory for Studio la Città. The gallery has long championed artists whose practices are grounded in reduction – of colour, gesture, and form.
Lucas Reiner – Renaissance Removal Paintings
Over 25 years of painting marginalized background trees as forefront images, I looked further into the background of those backgrounds. what is that space? I grew up in the shadow of conceptual art, but I don’t consider myself a conceptual artist.
DEPOSITO À – Converge
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#000000
Black is never just a colour – it is a conceptual vector, a dynamic material, an existential signifier, a semantic tool.
The colour #000000, the digital maximum reduction of black expressed as a hexadecimal code, appears in the RGB system as the absolute absence of Red, Green, and Blue (0, 0, 0). Conceptually, it symbolizes the “zero of form” theorized by Malevich and serves as both limit point and point of origin for a color gradient—a progressive, incremental transition across tones.
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else”, Ad Reinhardt
A Requiem in Progress
Exhibition Installation Artists Video Publications Press Releases Inspired by the loss of a dear friend in the Spring of 2019, I began working on a Requiem to honor his great example of friendship, mentorship, and artistic excellence. For A Requiem in Progress, the text of Revelation (Apocalypse) and Verdi’s Requiem, along with my friend’s photographs,…
MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI
For the exhibition MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI works have been selected regardless of a critical or conceptual framework. These pieces were not chosen because they illustrate an idea or contribute to a theoretical trajectory
Lucas Reiner
LUCAS REINER Artwork Exhibitions News Video Publications Bio Studio Notes Lucas Reiner – Renaissance Removal Paintings DEPOSITO À – Converge #000000 MAGAZZINO D’ARTE OGGI A Requiem in Progress No posts found! Lucas Reiner, Porto, 2026Photo Credit: Filipe Braga I began to paint trees in 2001. These were simple, marginalized, roadside trees in Los Angeles that…
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