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Early Works
Peter Halley, Gallery | Brussels, 22.03 - 15.04.2023

Early Works: Peter Halley

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Peter Halley Red Cell with Orange Background, 1985 one panel fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 163 x 183 cm 64 x 72 in
Peter Halley
Red Cell with Orange Background, 1985
one panel
fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
163 x 183 cm
64 x 72 in
In honor of Peter Halley's forthcoming monographic exhibition at the MUDAM entitled Conduits. Paintings from the 1980s opening on March 31, 2023, we are pleased to present works by the artist that highlight this important formative period.
From the 1980s, Peter Halley’s formal vocabulary was firmly defined: cells, prisons, and conduits which form flat and closed-yet-discursive pictorial spaces. The theoretical foundation is established clearly by the artist himself: “Where once geometry provided a sign of stability, order, and proportion, today it offers an array of shifting signifiers and images of confinement and deterrence.”

 

Early Works presents the basis of post-conceptual ideas formed in the 1980s and early 90s that Halley continues to develop to this day. This formative era marked the development of his stylistic language that made him––alongside contemporaries including Ross Bleckner, Jeff Koons, and Haim Steinbach––a standout pioneer of the post-conceptualist, neo-geo movement.

 

Efficiency and dialectic endurance being key to his production, his paintings are labor and thought-intensive energy systems made with a consciously limited number of formal tools and pictorial elements amounting to a positive and fruitful reaction to the alleged “death of painting”. A peculiar intertwinement of painted physicality and worldly connectivity, the works distinctly address persistent elements of both the medium and the now.

 

Peter Halley was born in New York in 1953. He studied first at Yale University and then at the University of New Orleans where he received his MFA. Also a respected art critic and theorist, Halley is revered for his essays and his self-published magazine INDEX featuring interviews and profiles of other artists. His paintings can be found in collections worldwide including MoMA, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Tate Modern, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among many others.

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  • Peter Halley Red Cell with Orange Background, 1985 one panel fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 163 x 183 cm 64 x 72 in
    Peter Halley
    Red Cell with Orange Background, 1985
    one panel
    fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    163 x 183 cm
    64 x 72 in
  • Peter Halley Yellow Cell with Triple Conduit, 1986 two attached panels acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 196 x 196 x 10 cm 77 1/8 x 77 1/8 x 4 in
    Peter Halley
    Yellow Cell with Triple Conduit, 1986
    two attached panels
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    196 x 196 x 10 cm
    77 1/8 x 77 1/8 x 4 in
  • Peter Halley Prevention Mechanism, 1989 one panel acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 196 x 329 x 4 cm 77 1/8 x 129 1/2 x 1 5/8 in
    Peter Halley
    Prevention Mechanism, 1989
    one panel
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    196 x 329 x 4 cm
    77 1/8 x 129 1/2 x 1 5/8 in
  • Peter Halley World of Mire, 1991 two attached panels acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 214 x 207 cm 84 1/4 x 81 1/2 in
    Peter Halley
    World of Mire, 1991
    two attached panels
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    214 x 207 cm
    84 1/4 x 81 1/2 in
  • Peter Halley Todd, 1991 two attached panels acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 229 x 217 cm 90 1/8 x 85 3/8 in
    Peter Halley
    Todd, 1991
    two attached panels
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    229 x 217 cm
    90 1/8 x 85 3/8 in
  • Peter Halley Exception, 1997 acrylic, metallic acrylic, pearlescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas 188 x 178 x 10 cm 74 x 70 1/8 x 4 in
    Peter Halley
    Exception, 1997
    acrylic, metallic acrylic, pearlescent acrylic and Roll-A-Tex on canvas
    188 x 178 x 10 cm
    74 x 70 1/8 x 4 in
  • Peter Halley Nowhere, 1992 Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 87 x 157 1/8 x 4 in 221 x 399 x 10 cm
    Peter Halley
    Nowhere, 1992
    Acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    87 x 157 1/8 x 4 in
    221 x 399 x 10 cm
  • Peter Halley Prison, 1985 one panel fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 163 x 163 cm 64 1/8 x 64 1/8 in
    Peter Halley
    Prison, 1985
    one panel
    fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    163 x 163 cm
    64 1/8 x 64 1/8 in
  • Peter Halley Black Cell with Underground Sequence, 1986 three attached panels acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 175 x 284 cm 69 x 112 in
    Peter Halley
    Black Cell with Underground Sequence, 1986
    three attached panels
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    175 x 284 cm
    69 x 112 in
  • Peter Halley Black Cell, 1989 two attached panels acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 228 x 267 cm 90 x 105 in
    Peter Halley
    Black Cell, 1989
    two attached panels
    acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas
    228 x 267 cm
    90 x 105 in
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