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Bridget Riley | David Zwirner, London | Preview 5 March

Verónica López by Verónica López
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Bridget Riley, Zig/Rhomboids - ['February 6'], 1987. © 2020 Bridget Riley. All rights reserved. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.

Bridget Riley, Zig/Rhomboids - ['February 6'], 1987. © 2020 Bridget Riley. All rights reserved. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.

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Bridget Riley. Studies: 1984 –1997. 6 March – 18 April, 2020. David Zwirner. 24 Grafton Street. London

Bridget Riley, Zig/Rhomboids - ['February 6'], 1987. © 2020 Bridget Riley. All rights reserved. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
Bridget Riley, Zig/Rhomboids – [‘February 6’], 1987. © 2020 Bridget Riley. All rights reserved.
Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of studies by Bridget Riley in The Upper Room in the London gallery. The artist has selected a group of works from the 1980s and 1990s that reflect the connection between the writings of Paul Klee (1879–1940) and her own understanding of abstract painting. As Riley has noted, “Paul Klee was of seminal importance to me because he showed me what abstraction meant.” [Bridget Riley, “Making Visible,” in Riley and Robert Kudielka, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation . Exh. cat. (London: Hayward Gallery, 2002), p. 15.] Late works by the Bauhaus master will be on display concurrently on the ground and first floors.

On view in the exhibition will be working studies that show the movement from ‘stripes’ to ‘rhomboids.’ In the earliest of these works, Riley begins to cross her stripes with short diagonal elements, to move the eye around, across, and through the pictorial space, leading to the development of a new visual form, her ‘rhomboid’ paintings.

In 2002, Bridget Riley co-curated Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation at the Hayward Gallery, London, with Robert Kudielka. As Riley wrote in the catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition, “Klee is unique in that he demonstrated more fully [than his contemporaries] that the elements of painting are not just a means to an end, but have distinct characteristics of their own…. A colour in a painting is no longer the colour of something but a hue and a tone either contrasting with other hues and tones or related in shade and gradations. And, very importantly, forms do not act as substitutes for bodies in physical space but are spatial agents in the picture plane.” [Riley, “Making Visible,” p. 16.]

The rhomboid paintings, for which these studies were prepared, constituted a new learning phase for Riley. When they were first exhibited, some thought that the rhomboids were painterly strokes, enlarged and formalised, deriving once again from Georges Seurat, and there was a certain truth in this observation. The integration of these forms was a very conscious effort by the artist to rediscover pictorial craftsmanship and to increase the means at her disposal. Seen together, these works embody Riley’s powers of invention—and even reinvention—and her ongoing engagement with the understanding of abstract painting.

Bridget Riley in her East London studio with cartoon scale pieces, early 1990s. Photo Bill Warhurst. Courtesy the Bridget Riley Archive.
Bridget Riley in her East London studio with cartoon scale pieces, early 1990s. Photo Bill Warhurst.
Courtesy the Bridget Riley Archive.

Bridget Riley was born in 1931 in London, where she attended Goldsmiths College from 1949 to 1952 and the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955. Riley’s first solo exhibitions were held at Gallery One, London, in 1962 and 1963, followed by two exhibitions at Robert Fraser Gallery, London, in 1966 and 1967. In 1968, she represented Great Britain at the 34th Venice Biennale (along with Phillip King), where she was the first living British painter to win the prestigious International Prize for Painting. Her first retrospective, covering the period from 1961 to 1970, opened at the Kunstverein Hannover in 1971 and subsequently travelled to Kunsthalle Bern; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin; and the Hayward Gallery, London.

More recent significant solo presentations include those at Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2000–2001); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2004–2005); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (travelled to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton City Art Gallery; 2009–2010); The National Gallery, London (2010–2011); Art Institute of Chicago (2014–2015); The Courtauld Gallery, London (2015); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England; Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (2017); the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan (2018); and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (travelled to the Hayward Gallery, London, 2019–2020). David Zwirner has worked with Riley since 2014.

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