Hard-edged geometric painting isn’t something I normally go for. These blog posts however, are about things I find interesting and my curiosity was piqued by this exhibition of Al Held’s work at White Cube Bermondsey.
Seeing this felt like looking at a puzzle. I enjoyed discovering what seemed to me to be mathematical twists. Was I imagining them? Did it matter? It certainly made me look more closely, moving with the shapes and questioning the representations of space and depth.
I felt to begin with that I was back in the 1970s.
Held’s work moved through from his beginnings in Abstract Expressionism through to the concretisation of space. Later pieces remind one of the virtual world where space can do all kinds of things previously unimagined.
It’s amazing how a plain flat canvas can be covered in paint and create entire previously unimagined worlds.
