Peter Halley (1953)
A far off place
1993 | Day-Glo acrylic, acrylic and roll-a-tex on canvas | 246 x 230 cm
As an artist and theorist, Peter Halley became the spokesman of a new form of abstraction in 80s. It is termed New-Geometry, as opposed to the Nouvelle Figuration.
From 1981 on, his apparently abstract works have always represented a figurative theme: prison cells, internal computer systems… He uses fluorescent colours, black, white, and grey, and paints his surfaces quite anonymously, using industrial and synthetic painting masks and a roller, which paradoxically creates some relief in his paintings. Through its distance and irony, his oeuvre tends to show that the optimism of the pioneers of abstraction has been strongly undermined by technological civilization, and that present day artists have fewer certainties.
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