Bridget Riley - Wall Works 1983-2023

Over her incredibly longevous career-she first became famous at the start of the 1960s as a leading exponent of Op art-Bridget Riley has developed her paintings through the arrangement of simple forms: stripes, triangles, circles and ovals, rhomboids and curves. She explores the rules of perception with colours and rhythms, inspired by theories and painting practices from Egypt to post-Impressionism. Her art is nevertheless an utterly contemporary laboratory, starting from formal experiments and exactly defined hues. Beyond the window format of the canvas, since the late 1970s she has been creating wall paintings, engendering a direct communication between work, viewer, and space. In an exceptional show at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, thirteen of these wall paintings across forty years were brought together: dot paintings, stripe paintings, and complex shapes whose inner logic resists a quick glance. The exhibition is documented in work illustrations and installation views that give a sense of the polyrhythms across the walls. An essay by Eric de Chassey discusses this central genre in Riley 's work, Michael Bracewell visits the artist for a look at her recent work, and Robert Kudielka provides the biographical context. Two historical interviews and a reflection by Riley herself round out the book.

Hb, 140 pages, 24 x 30cm