Tomas Rajlich (Jankov, Czech Republic, 1940) is internationally recognised as one of the most influential figures in European abstract painting.
When he appeared on the scene in the first half of the 1970s, he was often associated with Minimalism and Fundamental Painting, a term coined on the occasion of the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1975, in which Rajlich participated. The movement included Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin and the early works of Brice Marden and Gerhard Richter.
The large-scale retrospective of the work of Rajlich in the present volume has been conducted in dialogue with certain key works of Italian abstract art selected by the artist himself: from an introduction to the Concretism of the 1930s to the postwar period, from the preconceptual and perceptual explorations of the 1960s to Op Art and the new painting of the 1970s and 1980s, unravelling a novel and original line in Italian abstract art.

Genoa, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, April - September 2021