Title: Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014
Abstract: Published on occasion of Bridget Riley's major exhibition at David Zwirner in London in summer of 2014, this fully illustrated catalogue offers intimate explorations of paintings and works on paper produced by legendary British artist over past 50 years, focusing specifically on her recurrent use of stripe motif. Riley has devoted her practice to actively engaging viewers through elementary shapes such as lines, circles, curves and squares, creating visual experiences that at times trigger optical sensations of vibration and movement. The London show, her most extensive presentation in city since her 2003 retrospective at Tate Britain, explored stunning visual variety she has managed to achieve working exclusively with stripes, manipulating surfaces of her vibrant canvases through subtle changes in hue, weight, rhythm and density. As noted by Paul Moorhouse, 'Throughout her development, Riley has drawn confirmation from Eugene Delacroix's observation that the first merit of a painting is to be a feast for eyes. [Her] most recent stripe paintings are a striking reaffirmation of that principle, exciting and entrancing eye in equal measure.' Created in close collaboration with artist, publication's beautifully produced colour plates offer a selection of iconic works from exhibition. These include artist's first stripe works in color from 1960s, a series of vertical compositions from 1980s that demonstrate her so-called 'Egyptian' palette - a 'narrow chromatic range that recalled natural phenomena' - and an array of her modestly scaled studies, executed with gouache on graph paper and rarely before seen. A range of texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes images, while little-seen archival imagery shows Riley at work over years.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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