Galerie Max Hetzler’s Bridget Riley exhibition is the celebrated British artist’s first solo show in Paris since her 2008 survey exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.The eponymous exhibition, on show until June 6, features a new body of the artist’s signature optical black and white paintings, on display for the first time.Comprising a wall painting, a large 150 x 450 cm canvas, as well as two triangular and one square work, the new paintings recall those from very early in her career.“They are incisive examples of Riley’s reorientation in terms of structure and color since the rigorous black and white paintings of the 60s,” the gallery states.Famous as a leading exponent of the Op Art movement, Riley investigates sight and examines the perception of nature by means of color and forms, developing illusions through optical calculation and with regularities of lines, surfaces, and color combinations.Riley has said of her paintings, “The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift…One moment there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.”
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