Bridget Riley: the Stripe Paintings, David Zwirner, London
This museum-quality show is a marvellous high point: a retrospective in all but name
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It is an English summer of rigorous abstraction – and particularly of the stripe – this season (see also Ian Davenport: Colourfall). Riley is surely Mondrian’s purest British descendant, and this museum-quality show is a marvellous high point: a retrospective in all but name, it focuses on the variety and virtuosity that Riley achieves in the recurrent use of the stripe, changing colour, weight and density.
Works range from 1960s vibrating black-and-white paintings, to the warm and cold colours rippling into pale dawn light in the classic “Late Morning 1”, to a sonorous new series dominated by hot pinks and oranges.
020 3538 3165, to July 25
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