With his “black square on a white background”, Malevich has reached the zero degree of painting, since the painting refers to no reality other than his own. With the “White Square on a white background” — considered as the first monochrome in the history of art — he increasingly engaged in the mystical quest for a world without objects, or the world of non-representation. 

In homage to Malevich, the Wagner Gallery offers a selection of black and/or white works by around twenty contemporary artists for whom pure form, pure color or immateriality are as minimal, radical, spatial as musical.