Author: Bechara, TonyIn keeping with Tony Bechara’s richly chromatic oeuvre, this artist’s book is inspired by his notes and colour formulas that form the basis for his acrylic paintings. Dividing his canvas into hundreds of quarter-inch squares, Bechara meticulously fills each space in with complementary colours. It features over 130 illustrations, with foldouts and multiple materials, as well as a glossary of key motifs that introduces Bechara’s personal artistic language to the public for the first time.Puerto Rico–born, New York–based artist Tony Bechara (born 1942) served as board president of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years, while also honing his own geometric abstraction process. The resulting grid paintings thus evoke a variety of cultural influences: from Seurat’s pioneering pointillism to hard-edge abstraction, traditional weaving and 8-bit “pixel art” of the last half century. ISBN 9798990804005. Lisson Gallery. hb. 130 pages. 117 colour, 13 b/w ills. 24.8 x 27.9 cm.available
