The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014
David Zwirner
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| Bridget Riley, Prairie (acrylic on linen, two panels, 196.9 x 786.2 cm), 2003/1971 Occasionally, I spent my night with the computer or the iPod at my side. With the headphones over my head. Laying down in silence listening to music. It could be an opera from a classic composer, or a set of albums by a particular band, or, even, have the shuffle bottom on and let the music came to me randomly and surprisingly. Which is my favourite way: a classic followed by industrial followed by pop followed by world music or a ranchera followed by dark-metal... All throughout the night I have the deep pleasure of revising places and experiences begone. Answers to questions asked. A particular song, the singer's voice, a sentence trigger a set of stimulus. Create rhizomorph connections and relational structures. The beat, the silences, the melody spring like poems after a wine drinking evening in the company of close and intense companions, new and old friends around a dinning table until dark turn light. This comes about Bridget Riley's Stripe paintings on show at David Zwirner gallery in Mayfair. Variations, patterns, compositions and modulations, explorations on movement, perception emerging from each painted line. Sound escapes from each different panel and flows constantly through each room, submerging in a given time our presence. |
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| Bridget Riley, Après Midi (oil on linen, 231 x 197.5 cm), 1981 |
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| Bridget Riley, Après Midi, 1981 [detail] |
«David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition by British artist Bridget Riley organized in collaboration with Karsten Schubert. Featuring paintings and studies selected from all periods of her career, from 1961 to 2014, the show will be installed throughout the three floors of the gallery, making it the artist’s first major survey in London since her 2003 retrospective at Tate Britain.» [...MORE...]
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| Bridget Riley, Horizontal Vibration (emulsion on board, 44.5 x 141 cm), 1961 |
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| Bridget Riley, Tocatta (Green) (oil on linen, 150 x 258.2 cm), 2014-2013 [detail] |
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| Bridget Riley, Lilac Painting 5 (oil on linen, 171.5 x 140.3 cm), 2008/1983 |
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| Bridget Riley, Red Modulation (Yellow and Orange) (oil on linen, two panels 154.7 x 266.3 cm [L] and 154.8 x 266.2 cm [R]), 2014-2013 [detail] |
«Riley’s dedication to the interaction of form and colour has led to a continued exploration of perception. From the early 1960s, she has used elementary shapes such as lines, circles, curves, and squares to create visual experiences that actively engage the viewer, at times triggering optical sensations of vibration and movement.» [...]
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| Bridget Riley, Elysium (acrylic on linen, 261 x 236 cm), 2003/1973 |
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