LAURE PROUVOST

The Artist Book

Fraser Muggeridge (Ed.)

Born in France, Laure Prouvost received the Max Mara Prize for Women, 2012, and will be exhibiting new work at Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain in Spring, 2013. Provoust’s first artist book extends her preoccupations with the occurrence of “mis-translations,” in which objects, stories, or scene are transformed through film, video and in this case, onto the printed page. Exploring ideas of translation, mirroring and narrative, each “mistranslation” allows a new narrative to develop that often is unrelated to its origin. Using a technique she describes as “backword stories,” Prouvost uses the idea of the artists’ book as a biography, juxtaposing formal devices with mini-narratives, images and handwritten notes. The book is made up of text and images, including a newly commissioned biography that is punctuated by graphic statements about language, translation, and cultural misunderstandings, in which the subject, or narrator, merges with the book itself.

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BRIDGET RILEY

Paintings and Gouaches, 1979-80 & 2011

Bridget  Riley:  Paintings  and  Gouaches  1979-­80  &  2011 features three new paintings which represent an important new direction in the artist’s work. Riley brings her exploration of the circle from the wall to the canvas, and from black and white to color. Through the layering of circles of yellow and orange, Riley asks the eye to continuously adjust as the shapes grow and compress, recede and advance, and dance across the canvas. Nine early ‘wave’ gouaches, twisted and curved, show the relationship and interplay of assorted colors. Full-color illustrations are accompanied by a conversation between Bridget Riley and Robert Kudielka from 1978, in which the artist discusses her move away from the blacks, grays and whites of the 1960s into the use of the curve as a rhythmic vehicle for color.

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