(born in New York 1953)
Six Prisons, 2006, signed and dated on the reverse, acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, pearlescent, metallic acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on 6 adjoined canvases, 190.5 x 190.5 cm

We are grateful to Peter Halley Studio, New York for the kind assistance with the cataloguing of this work.

Provenance:
Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm (label on the reverse)
Private Collection, Vienna

Exhibited:
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, 10 November
2006 - 10 January 2007
Peter Halley – Prisons, Friedrich Schiller University,
Jena, Germany, 10 May 2014 – 27 July 2014

Literature:
Martin S. Fischer, Barbara Happe, Steffen Siegel, et al.,
Peter Halley – Prisons, exhibition catalogue (Jena: Friedrich Schiller University, 2014), 91, ill.

“The deployment of the geometric dominates the landscape. Space is divided into discrete, isolated cells, explicitly determined as to extent and function. Cells are reached through complex networks of corridors and roadways that must be traveled at prescribed speeds and at prescribed times. The constant increase in the complexity and scale of these geometries continuously transforms the landscape…

Along with the geometrization of the landscape, there occurs the geo-metrization of thought. Specific reality is displaced by the primacy of the model. And the model is in turn imposed on the landscape, further displacing reality in a process of ever more complete circularity.”
Peter Halley, The Employment of the Geometric