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Mondrian Evolution (Paperback)
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Kathrin Bessen, Sam Keller, Ulf Kuster, Susanne Gaensheimer, …
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Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of
painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his
150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted
work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition
of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and
Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not
until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly
non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the
rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and
the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this
path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the
sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of
abstraction.
“I am sometimes asked ‘What is your objective’ and this I
cannot truthfully answer. I work ‘from’ something rather than
‘towards’ something. It is a process of discovery.” Since
1961, Riley has focused exclusively on seemingly simple geometric
forms, such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, arrayed across
a surface—whether a canvas, wall, or paper—according to an
internal logic. The resulting compositions actively engage the
viewer, at times triggering sensations of vibration and movement.
In the present selection, Riley advances her Measure by Measure
series, her most extensive body of work to date, into a new, darker
color palette. Once again, changing the way we look and offering a
powerful effect on our eyes. This sense of dynamism was explored to
great effect in the artist’s earliest black-and-white paintings,
which established the basis of her enduring formal vocabulary. In
2020, after visiting her own earlier works at her retrospective
exhibition organized by the National Galleries of Scotland, Riley
returned to black-and-white lozenges, adjusting the orientation of
each shape to create a new visual sensation. In 1967, Riley
introduced colour into her work, thus expanding the perceptual and
optical possibilities of her compositions. Published on the
occasion of the 2021 exhibition at David Zwirner, London, this
monograph features new scholarship on the artist by art historian
Éric de Chassey, who looks at how Riley’s past, as well as
previous artists, has led to this body of work.
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Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat (Paperback)
Ernst Vegelin Claerbergen; Introduction by Karen Serres, Barnaby Wright; Contributions by Bridget Riley; Interview by Eric De Chassey
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In 1959, Bridget Riley's copy of Georges Seurat's Bridge at
Courbevoie (1886-87) offered the artist a new understanding of
colour and tone, which led her to produce her first major works of
pure abstraction during the early 1960s. In 2015-16, an exhibition
at the Courtauld Gallery, London, presented seven of Riley's
paintings and this key Pointillist work by Seurat from the museum's
collection. Brought together for the first time, the exhibition
demonstrated the two artists' shared preoccupation with perception
by looking at pivotal points throughout Riley's career. Alongside
full-colour illustrations, this publication features two essays
written by Riley that offer the artist's insights on Seurat's
importance to her own practice. An interview with the artist by
Eric de Chassey, complemented by an introductory text by Karen
Serres and Barnaby Wright, make this an important resource for art
historians and general readers alike.
First published to accompany a 2011 exhibition, this catalogue
features three new paintings that bring Bridget Riley's exploration
of the circle from the wall to the canvas, and from black and white
to colour. By placing Riley's new paintings in relation to her
early gouaches, this publication highlights new directions taken by
the famous British artist. Through the layering of circles of
yellow and orange in her exploration of interplaying colours, Riley
asks the viewer's eye to continuously adjust as the shapes grow,
compress and dance across the canvas. Full-colour illustrations are
accompanied by a conversation between Riley and Robert Kudielka
from 1978, in which the artist discusses her move away from the
blacks, greys and whites of her 1960s works and towards the use of
the curve 'as a rhythmic vehicle for colour'.
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Parkett #61 (Paperback)
Liam Gillick, Sarah Morris, Bridget Riley, Matthew Ritchie
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A Century of Prints in Britain (Paperback)
Jill Constantine, Julia Beaumont-Jones; Artworks by Bridget Riley, Fiona Banner, Patrick Caulfield, …
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Bridget Riley's paintings are developed carefully over time, the
result of methodically working through pictorial variables such as
colour, tone, scale, and rhythm. Studies are central to this
process, allowing Riley to concentrate on the analysis and
synthesis that lie at the heart of her working practice. Riley
says, 'Because my work is based on enquiry, studies are my chief
method of exploration and my way into paintings' (2005). This
volume richly illustrates the thinking that goes into Riley's work
through a selection of over 150 drawings, colour analyses,
notations, scale studies and cartoons, most of which were exhibited
at the artist's recent seminal retrospective exhibitions in
Edinburgh and London from 2019 to 2020 organized by the National
Galleries of Scotland. The selection spans most of Riley's working
life, tracing the origins and evolving nature of her remarkable
body of work. Riley's beginnings are also documented through
selected childhood drawings, work made during and immediately
following her studies at Goldsmiths' College and the Royal College
of Art, and her early explorations into abstraction. The artist's
working method is brought into high relief in a newly commissioned
conversation with Riley and Sir John Leighton, Director of the
National Galleries of Scotland. The text explores the cardinal
moments in the artist's practice and the impulses that bring her
work into existence. The volume also includes four previously
published texts dedicated to Riley's studies and practice written
by the artist herself, art historians, curators and museum
directors, which shed further light on the enduring role of drawing
and the process of exploration central to her work. With over 200
illustrations
Bridget Riley has made screenprints throughout her career,
extending the principles of her paintings into a new, reproducible
medium. Bringing together the complete, updated inventory of this
substantial body of work, this volume explores Riley's development
as a printmaker and her relationship to the screenprint medium.
Newly revised, updated and designed, this catalogue raisonne richly
illustrates Bridget Riley's graphic work in a larger, enhanced
format. Alongside a full-colour inventory of the prints are updated
essays by Lynn MacRitchie and Craig Hartley and an additional essay
by Robert Kudielka, which provide a greater context for Riley's
work. This revised volume, a co-publication with The Bridget Riley
Art Foundation, also benefits from supplemental material including
an artist biography and selected solo and group exhibition history.
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Bridget Riley (Paperback)
Bridget Riley, Robert Kudielka, Eric De Chassey, David Sylvester, Michael Bracewell, …
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This landmark book reflects on almost 70 years of works by Bridget
Riley (b.1931), from some of her earliest to very recent projects,
providing a unique record of the work of an artist still very much
at the height of her powers. Essays from leading scholars and
commentators on Riley's work will make this title the authority on
Riley's practice. In the last decade, Riley has continued to push
her practice considerably, producing several large-scale
site-specific wall paintings as well as continuing to develop new
paintings. This book will explore these recent developments. It
will also examine the notable influence that other artists such as
Georges Seurat and Piet Mondrian have had on Riley's work.
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