{"product_id":"65198-peter-halley","title":"Peter Halley","description":"In 1980, Peter Halley began painting his first Prisons—radically reduced geometric abstractions. Here, abstraction was no longer understood as a utopian starting point for liberation but as a dystopian symbol for the regulation of the environment and social space. “I wanted to draw attention to this geometrized, rationalized, and quantified world. I saw it as a world dominated by efficiency,” the American artist wrote in 1990. At a time of increasingly widespread adoption of personal computers and the early internet era, Halley developed a system based on only three fundamental geometric forms, which he called \"prisons,\" \"conduits,\" and \"cells.\" Even in his choice of materials, such as the texture-creating paint additive Roll-A-Tex and fluorescent Day-Glo paints, he referenced the mechanization of artisanal skills. This catalog focuses on the first ten years of intense creative work and showcases the intellectual-historical roots of Halley's characteristic visual language.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526289383688,"sku":"9783775755108","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775755108_711c5405-4c09-434b-bb6b-bdcc77521dd6.jpg?v=1744125999","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/65198-peter-halley","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}