Michael Kidner
£ 35.00
Overview
Flowers Gallery is pleased to present from Rothko to Riley - a retrospective exhibition of early works by the late British artist Michael Kidner.
A pioneer of Optical Art, Michael Kidner is recognised as a foundational figure in British abstraction, devoting much of his career to developing work of a constructive nature. Both rational and playful, he combined visual responses to the principles of mathematics, science and chaos theories with an abiding interest in the irrational and unpredictable nature of the human condition.
Bringing together works from 1956 to 1970, the exhibition traces Kidner's evolution from his early After Image series, influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Mark Rothko's colour fields, to his later explorations of wave patterns and optical effects, rooted in chaos theory and mathematical principles.
Once I realised that my interest in colour rather than the figure or landscape could become the subject of a painting, I was off to a new start. - Michael Kidner
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About Michael Kidner
A pioneer of Optical Art, Michael Kidner devoted much of his career to developing work of a constructive nature. Both rational and playful, his art has combined visual responses to the principles of mathematics, science and chaos theories with an abiding interest in the irrational and unpredictable nature of the human condition. Kidner was described by American art historian and critic Irving Sandler as “arguably the first Op Artist in Britain”, following his investigations of the optical effects of light, colour and systemic structure during the 1960s. Optics presented Kidner with a challenge in his pursuit of a pure form of imagery, seeking a phenomenological approach to the fluctuating effects of light and colour within the space set by the canvas. He has said: “Unless you read a painting as a feeling then you don’t get anything at all.”
