中文简介：

在她60多年的艺术生涯中，知名英国艺术家布里奇特·莱利（Bridget Riley）通过绘画中紧张、抽象的构图引发了人们强烈的感觉。在这批新作品中，莱利重新拾回早期的想法，并将它们带往更多令人惊讶的方向。

正如艺术家所指出的，“有时有人问我‘你的目标是什么？’，我无法如实回答。我的工作是‘从’某种东西出发，而不是‘向’某种东西出发。这是一个发现的过程。”自1961年以来，莱利一直专注于看似简单的几何形式，如线、圆、曲线和方块，按照内部逻辑排列在画布、墙壁或纸张上。由此产生的作品积极地吸引观众，有时会引发振动和运动的感觉。在本书中，莱利将她迄今为止最广泛的作品——“针锋相对”系列升级为一个新的、更深的色调，再次改变了我们的观看方式，并对我们的眼睛产生了强大的影响。

这种动态感在艺术家最早的黑白画中得到了很好的探索，为她持久的形式语汇奠定了基础。2020年，莱利在苏格兰国家美术馆举办的回顾展上参观了自己的早期作品，之后她重新使用黑白菱形，调整每个形状的方向，创造出新的视觉感受。

本书于伦敦卓纳画廊举办2021年展览之际出版，收录了艺术史学家埃里克·德·沙西（Éric de Chassey）对这位艺术家的新学术研究，除了艺术史之外，莱利的过去如何造就了这一系列作品。

英文简介：

Renowned British artist Bridget Riley’s paintings have provoked powerful sensations through their formally taut, abstract compositions over the course of her more than six-decade career. In this new body of work, Riley returns to earlier ideas and takes them into further and surprising directions.

As the artist has noted, “I am sometimes asked ‘What is your objective’ and this I cannot truthfully answer. I work ‘from’ something rather than ‘towards’ something. It is a process of discovery.” Since 1961, Riley has focused exclusively on seemingly simple geometric forms, such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, arrayed across a surface—whether a canvas, a wall, or paper—according to an internal logic. The resulting compositions actively engage the viewer, at times triggering sensations of vibration and movement. In the present selection, Riley advances her Measure for Measure series, her most extensive body of work to date, into a new, darker color palette—once again, changing the way we look and offering a powerful effect on our eyes.

This sense of dynamism was explored to great effect in the artist’s earliest black-and-white paintings, which established the basis of her enduring formal vocabulary. In 2020, after visiting her own earlier works at her retrospective exhibition organized by the National Galleries of Scotland, Riley returned to black-and-white lozenges, adjusting the orientation of each shape to create a new visual sensation.

Published on the occasion of the 2021 exhibition at David Zwirner, London, this monograph features new scholarship on the artist by art historian Éric de Chassey, who looks at how Riley’s past, in addition to the history of art, has led to this body of work.