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Bridget Riley: Paintings 1984–2020 – New Color Harmonies And Color Meanings
Holzwarth Publications 2021 ISBN 9783947127252 Acqn 31253
Hb 24x30cm 78pp col ills £31.50

Bridget Riley's art is fueled by the artist's fascination with forms and colors from the history of
painting, in which she finds new harmonies and meanings when she abstracts colors from their
original figurative purposes. With each painting series, she arrives at new results-and this book,
her fifth at Holzwarth Publications, introduces her latest ones: the Intervals, broad horizontal
stripes in shades of a grayed green, violet, orange, and turquoise standing on a white
background. The arrangement does not follow strict rules: "When it has become clear that there
is no stable intellectual principle behind the permutations," Eric de Chassey writes in his essay,
"the mind and eye can engage in and accept the harmony of the whole picture, established as it
has been by the rhythm of changes in its units." The series Measure for Measure is held in similar
tones, but as the composition is built from colored circles, the paintings have a more airy, floating
character, each color also standing on its own. In the exhibition at all three venues of Galerie Max
Hetzler in Berlin, these new works are related to earlier canvases and wall paintings dating back
to 1984. It becomes clear that Riley's works are always both a stocktaking of what she has
achieved already and preparatory work for future paintings.

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