BOOK LAUNCH: PETER HALLEY - CELL GRIDS MOUSSE PUBLISHING 10.09.24 H18.30
The book “Cell Grids” by Mousse Publishing documents the eponymous exhibition the American artist Peter Halley held at @dallascontemporary in 2021, curated by Peter Doroshenko. On that occasion, nineteen “Cell Grid” paintings executed between 2015 and 2021, each composed of several – at minimum, nine – monochrome rectangular panels abutted, where hung on five ten-by-ten-foot white closed cubes arranged in two rows within the exhibition space. The colors are all fluorescent or metallic acrylic to which has been added Roll-A-Tex, an additive that gives a distinctive crepelike texture. Deciphering these paintings, which hover between abstraction and representation, is almost like learning a new language.
Peter Halley (1953, New York) emerged as an artist, and primary as a writer, from the artistic landscape of New York in the 1980s and as an influential member of the Neo-Geo movement.
Halley is also the former publisher of Index Magazine, a New York City-based publication which aimed to cover the burgeoning indie culture of the 1990s. Launched in 1996 Index run until late 2005. Since 1996, Index magazine has been spotlighting emergent and established figures in music, movies, fashion, art, writing and culture. It features interviews with stars and photographers such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson.
On display a selection of back issues of INDEX MAGAZINE.
