Publisher's Synopsis
With his Prison and Cell paintings, American artist Peter Halley manifested the reasoning, interdependencies and organisational forms of the artwork and the social space. Since the 1980s, Peter Halley has examined in his geometrical abstract painting and site-specific installations the spatial as well as communication and organisational structures that dominate everyday life. In an installation exclusively developed for the free accessible Rotunda of the SCHIRN in Frankfurt, Halley has worked intensively with the quite specific spatial conditions. The combination of various motives from the spectrum of the artist's oeuvre creates both an explosive energy field and an analytical map of his work.
