Comments on: Flashback: Bridget Riley at The Walker http://www.liverpoolcultureblog.co.uk/2009/10/flashback-bridget-riley-at-the-walker/ Culture, arts, music, theatre and media in Liverpool, Capital of Culture Tue, 24 May 2011 10:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ronnie de Ramper http://www.liverpoolcultureblog.co.uk/2009/10/flashback-bridget-riley-at-the-walker/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Ronnie de Ramper Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:07:23 +0000 http://www.liverpoolcultureblog.co.uk/2009/10/flashback-bridget-riley-at-the-walker/#comment-615 Another take, with revelations hitherto unknown to me, is offered by Will Self http://bit.ly/4fRW3B Bridget Riley as stair carpet. Her work will never look the same again! Another take, with revelations hitherto unknown to me, is offered by Will Self

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Bridget Riley as stair carpet. Her work will never look the same again!

]]> By: Ronnie de Ramper http://www.liverpoolcultureblog.co.uk/2009/10/flashback-bridget-riley-at-the-walker/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Ronnie de Ramper Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:02:12 +0000 http://www.liverpoolcultureblog.co.uk/2009/10/flashback-bridget-riley-at-the-walker/#comment-614 One way - God knows whether it's the best or only way - to view Bridget Riley's work is to start at the start. When we look at 'Art', we inevitably 'look'. That is, we gaze. We look/gaze 'at' Art, as active observers, and seek something back from the 'passive' object. Conventionally, our expectations are rewarded. But what happens to our 'expectations' when the Art is active back at us? That is, when the visual 'thing' we gaze at is not passive, but 'active' In Riley's work, the gazed-at object is visually active, stirring reconfigurations of shape and form as we gaze, and thereby prompting us to remember that Art can be not so much 'gazed-at' as 'gazed-with' One way – God knows whether it’s the best or only way – to view Bridget Riley’s work is to start at the start. When we look at ‘Art’, we inevitably ‘look’. That is, we gaze.

We look/gaze ‘at’ Art, as active observers, and seek something back from the ‘passive’ object. Conventionally, our expectations are rewarded.

But what happens to our ‘expectations’ when the Art is active back at us? That is, when the visual ‘thing’ we gaze at is not passive, but ‘active’ In Riley’s work, the gazed-at object is visually active, stirring reconfigurations of shape and form as we gaze, and thereby prompting us to remember that Art can be not so much ‘gazed-at’ as ‘gazed-with’

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