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Halley, Peter

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Painter, writer, teacher, and publisher: Peter Halley has been a widely influential figure in the international art world since his bold canvases were first shown in the early 1980s. Emerging from the East Village Neo-Geo scene, Halley soon became known for his aggressively colored Day-Glo paintings of square "cells" and rectilinear "conduits," titled with references ranging from the erudite to the pop.


While his paintings may initially recall the abstractions of Newman, Mondrian, and Albers, Halley's work breaks with the modernist agenda by insisting on a figurative referent, and, as curator and critic Dan Cameron has noted, Halley "effectively restate[s] the terms of abstraction in our time." For Halley, geometry is a profoundly social fact and his paintings are diagrams of the experience of space and time in contemporary society, depictions of loneliness and of connection.

Painting --- abstracte schilderkunst --- Halley, Peter

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Painting --- painting [image-making] --- Halley, Peter

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Bauhaus --- Constructivisme --- De stijl --- Halley, Peter --- Psychologie de la forme

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Le catalogue raisonné des peintures réalisées par Peter Halley de 1980 à 1989. Cette monographie de référence rassemble et documente une série de 186 œuvres, analysant l'évolution du travail géométrique et chromatique de Peter Halley. Inspiré par les théories structuralistes, le peintre questionne les ressorts de la vie moderne (design urbain, médias, technologies numériques), mobilisant des motifs tels que la cellule, la prison, le conduit et la brique. Un vocabulaire pictural qui remet en question les idées reçues à propos de la peinture abstraite et fait de Peter Halley une des figures importantes de l'art contemporain américain. Présentée par l'historienne de l'art Cara Jordan, cette vaste étude inclut également une biographie illustrée, un essai du critique et curateur Paul Pieroni ainsi qu'une anthologie de textes écrits par l'artiste dans les années 1980.Peter Halley (né en 1953 à New York, où il vit et travaille) est un peintre minimaliste américain, figure du mouvement Néo-géo. Ses peintures, faites de « cellules » et de « prisons », reflètent la géométrisation rampante de l'espace social. De 1984 à 1987 il fonde et gère avec Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons et Meyer Vaisman la galerie International With Monument. Entre 1996 et 2006, il publie la revue Index Magazine. Il a notamment exposé au CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (1991), au Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1992), au Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1992), au Des Moines Art Center (1992), au Dallas Museum of Art (1995), au Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), au Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (1998), au Museum Folkwang, Essen (1998), ainsi qu'au Butler Institute of American Art (1999). New York based Peter Halley (born 1953) is a prominent figure in contemporary art. A protagonist of the dynamic New York art scene of the 1980s, and founder of the seminal Index magazine, he gained recognition as one of the main champions of the neo-geo movement with his geometric paintings rendered in intense fluorescent Day-Glo acrylic paint and Roll-a-Tex texture additive. Since the mid-1990s his site-specific installations and permanent public works have extended his practice to a larger scale. A landmark publication for all those interested in contemporary painting, this catalogue raisonné of Peter Halley's paintings from the 1980s gathers together the complete body of 186 works realized between 1980 and 1989 and fully documents them for the first time. Showing the evolution of his work, it makes clear how Halley built his own geometric and chromatic vocabulary to challenge the then prevailing ideas about the nature and history of abstract painting, and how motifs such as the cell, the prison, the conduit and the brick wall came into existence, in parallel with his own thinking inspired in part by French Structuralist theory about modern life (urban design, media, new mass digital technologies) and the increasing geometrization of social space.

Psychologie de la forme --- Constructivisme --- Couleur --- Halley, Peter