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Bridget Riley
24 March - 26 June 2005 in the Entire Gallery
Bridget Riley: Painting and Preparatory Work 1961-2004 offers New Zealanders the rare opportunity to see a rich and comprehensive collection of work by one of the world’s truly great artists.
Since the 1960s, when she burst onto the international art scene with her visually-charged black and white paintings, Bridget Riley has consistently produced work which has entranced viewers and kept her at the forefront of contemporary painting. Working with a simple vocabulary of colours and abstract shapes, often on a massive scale, Riley produces paintings that shimmer and dance, flash and burn, generating sensations of light, movement and space. Her paintings are celebrated for their ability to engage the viewer’s sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.
City Gallery Wellington is the sole New Zealand venue for this major retrospective. The exhibition has been organised and toured by the British Council in partnership with the artist Bridget Riley, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and City Gallery Wellington. The show follows Riley’s hugely popular retrospective at the Tate Britain, London, in 2003. The exhibition was critically acclaimed, with reviewers describing the exhibition as ‘electrifying’ and as ‘One of the most coherent, individual and powerful bodies of work in contemporary art.’
Public Programmes
Friends Event : OUT OF SIGHT - BRIDGET RILEY AND HER TIMES, Thursday 31 March
presented by Gregory O'Brien.
Bridget Riley guided tours Saturdays & Sundays.
Ernst & Young - Beat Girls Riley tour, Tuesday 5 April.
Lecture: PLAYING TRICKS ON THE MIND AND THE BODY, Sunday 10 April
presented by Kathy Barry & Wyatt Page.
Keynote speaker, Sunday 8 May
Peter Stupples: BRIDGET RILEY AND BRITISH CONSTRUCTIVISM
Keynote speaker, Sunday 15 May
Zara Stanhope: A FAST RIDE OR A SLOW BURN: BRIDGET RILEY’S PAINTING & ITS IMPACT DURING THE 1960S & TODAY
Keynote speaker, Sunday 22 May
Jenny Harper: SEEING AND BELIEVING: THE RECEPTION OF BRIDGET RILEY’S ART
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