Bridget Riley: Studies 1984-95

Publisher: Ridinghouse

Publication Date: 2015

Text by Natalia Naish and Alexandra Tommasini. Interview by Robert Kudielka

Tracking a transitional period of Bridget Riley’s career, the works on paper in this volume move from the vertical stripe to increasingly complex diagonal compositions. During the mid-1980s, Riley introduced a new pictorial device – the rhomboid – to the then predominantly vertical stripes, developing her exploration of interplaying tones of green, yellow and orange. Riley constructs new visual relationships between divergent colors and forms within these works, creating what the artist terms a ‘harmony of contrasts’ that animates the entire visual field. Illustrated in full color, the works are accompanied by a historic interview with the artist by Robert Kudielka and a text by Natalia Naish and Alexandra Tommasini, which situate these studies with major paintings during this period.

Details

Publisher: Ridinghouse

Artist: Bridget Riley

Contributors: Robert Kudielka, Natalia Naish, Alexandra Tommasini

Publication Date: 2015

ISBN: 9781909932043

Retail: $25 US & Canada | £15.95 | €23

Status: Not Available

Designer: Tim Harvey

Printer: Studio Fasoli, Verona, Italy

Binding: Softcover

Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 9 in (19.7 x 22.9 cm)

Pages: 72

Reproductions: 34 color

Artist and Contributors

Bridget Riley

Since 1961, Bridget Riley (b. 1931) has focused exclusively on seemingly simple geometric forms, such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, arrayed across a surface—whether a canvas, a wall, or paper—according to an internal logic. The resulting compositions actively engage the viewer, at times triggering sensations of vibration and movement.

Robert Kudielka

Robert Kudielka is an art historian and former Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He is the co-author with Bridget Riley of Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works, 1914-1940 (2002) and author and editor of numerous books on Riley, including Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley: Essays and Interviews since 1972 (2005; revised and expanded edition, 2014) and The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley, Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009).

Natalia Naish

Alexandra Tommasini

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