Hayward Gallery, LondonBursting with movement and energy, always remaining in the here and now, Riley’s paintings give their pleasures generouslyBridget Riley’s art is as sneaky as it is spectacular. Some of her paintings make you want to fall over and some make you feel like you’re fainting, your eyes ping-ponging all over the place. Others are more stately in their visual rhythms, but the experience of a Riley is never static. The eye roams and the brain roams with it. You think you get it, and then you don’t. All this with a few repeated intervals of black and white, some circles or stripes or blocks of colour. Riley’s paintings and wall drawings are great to look at. They are also deadly serious. Related: Observer archive: Bridget Riley, 25 May 1969 Continue reading…
Via: Bridget Riley review – a shimmering, rolling, flickering spectacular
Categories: English News