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"Monochromes, from Malevich to the Present," recently on view at the Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, was described by its curator, Barbara Rose, as the first historically oriented museum exhibition conceived and presented entirely as a unitary installation. The 90 paintings and sculptures, which spanned the last 100 years and included works by 78 artists from North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe "and Asia, were grouped in six distinct contiguous "chromatic spaces" according to their predominant color, in an itinerary which began with black, moved through red, blue, gold and silver, before ending with white. In a small adjacent gallery were several paintings tracing a brief chronology of historical antecedents. These included Monet's Effet de neige a Giverny (1893), an early (1906-08) Monet-influenced landscape by Malevich, Rodchenko's three iconic monochromes from 1921, as well as works by Lucio Fontana, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.catalog just released in october