When: 14 April – 10 May 2005
Where: MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, RIJEKA
“No painter, dead or alive, has ever made us more aware of our eyes than Bridget Riley.” Robert Melville, The New Statesman, 1970.
Bridget Riley is one of Britain’s most respected artists, recently receiving rave reviews for her exhibition at Tate, London. Encompassing forty years of uncompromising and remarkable innovation her distinguished career is reflected in her characteristic and distinctive, optically vibrant paintings.
Celebrated for their ability to engage the viewer’s sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting, Riley’s paintings employ a simple vocabulary of colours and abstract shapes to generate sensations of movement, light and space.
This definitive survey of over 40 screen prints from 1962-2003, selected by the artist, offers a rare opportunity to examine the preoccupations and development of Riley's involvement with this medium over the last four decades. Works on display range from innovative black & white screenprints on plexiglass from the 1960s, to a large scale print produced by Riley to coincide with her successful painting retrospective at Tate Britain in 2003 and many more. This exhibition was originally initiated as a National Touring Exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery, London for the Arts Council England.
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