Author: Halley, PeterIn his series of colourful geometric paintings, Peter Halley rearranges his rigourous visual language of 'conduits' and 'cells' into structured square grids reminiscent of 20th-century modernist artists such as Agnes Martin and Piet Mondrian. This playful board book, according to curator Peter Doroshenko, 'aims to elucidate the true essence of Halley’s "Cell Grid" paintings … the complex interplay between the visual and the conceptual in his work.' Art critic and historian Barry Schwabsky writes that these works mark a new phase—which time will reveal as either a momentous shift or ultimately a continuation—in Halley’s career as a protagonist of contemporary abstract and geometric painting. But as Halley himself says of this series, 'I’ve always had a sense of humour about my work. It amuses me to think that someone looking at one of these paintings might think, "Peter Halley has finally given up and become an abstract painter".'ISBN 9788867495924. Mousse Publishing. hb. 37 pages. 36 colour, 0 b/w ills. 33 x 21 cm.in stock
