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On display
Black to White Discs by Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley Black to White Discs 1962. Acrylic on canvas. Private collection. © Bridget Riley 2017. All rights reserved
Art Bite
Past event
Meet in the exhibition
Free
Join art historian Robyn Peers as she discusses Bridget Riley's Black to White Discs on the first floor.
Art Bites are 30-minute lunchtime presentations on a single work on display, presented by our staff, guides and guest speakers.
There's a new Art Bite to enjoy each Friday at 12.30pm.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Bridget Riley: Cosmos
3 June – 12 November 2017
A new wall painting for Christchurch by internationally acclaimed English artist, Bridget Riley.
Collection
Bridget Riley Bagatelle 3
Bridget Riley’s self-effacing title for this work – a bagatelle is something seen as a trifle, too easy to be considered profound – underplays the complexity of this lively composition. It also alludes to it being effectively an extracted section of a larger and pivotal early work – Tremor, painted in 1962. Even in this abridged form it is a visual brain teaser, almost an IQ puzzle, inviting the viewer to find rhythm in its sequence of pattern and line.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Collection
Bridget Riley Bagatelle 2
Bridget Riley’s self-effacing title for this work – a bagatelle is something seen as a trifle, too easy to be considered profound – underplays the complexity of this lively composition. It also alludes to it being effectively an extracted section of a larger, early pivotal work – Tremor, painted in 1962. Even in abridged form it becomes a visual brain teaser, almost an IQ puzzle inviting the viewer to find rhythm in its sequence of pattern and line.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- )
Interview
In The Studio
Paul Moorhouse: We are standing in front of a full-size cartoon for Cosmos, the new wall painting that will be installed at Christchurch Art Gallery. How does the cartoon relate to the final wall painting?
Bridget Riley: The cartoon is painted in gouache on paper, but it gives me a good idea of the full-scale image that will be recreated on the wall in Christchurch. I have also made a smaller painting in acrylic directly onto the wall here in the studio. This is complete in itself, and provides the information I need to give me confidence in the appearance of the discs when the larger image is created on the gallery wall.
