109. PETER
HALLEY
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Magic, 2000. 160 x 145 cm.
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The
Grave , 1980. 127 x 152,4 cm.
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Partition
Magic, 2000. 160 x 145 cm.
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1953, New York, USA
Studies:
He
received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the University of New
Orleans in 1978, remaining in New Orleans until 1980.
Nowadays:
Since 1980, Halley has lived and worked in New York.
Themes and
style:
Halley
first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in
intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an
artist is usually associated with minimalism and neo-geo.
For over twenty-five years, Peter Halley's geometric
paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls
"prisons" and "cells" – icons that reflect the increasing
geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in paintings, installations, prints and writings.
Solo Exhibitions
His work has been exhibited in galleries in Chicago, London,
Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, and Tokyo.
See here:
Group Exhibitions:
See here:
Representative
Galleries:
Mary Boone
Thomas Modern
Senda
Carl Solway
Jablonka Maruani
Art Plural
Waddington Custot
In
his own Words:
“There’s
one other thing about the geometry that I really would like to emphasize. I
don’t think of my work as abstract at all; instead of using the word abstract I
always use the word diagrammatic. The issue to me is that at a certain point
when all these artificial systems of communication and transportation were
being laid out, that was the age of abstract art. So in a Mondrian or even in a
Frank Stella, what you have is an ideal depiction of what circulation and the
flow of information or transportation would be like if this goal of circulation
were completed. But I think in the contemporary world this has been composed
and the geometric has become the real in terms of what’s out there in the
world.”
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more Information: