![Peter Halley by Nicholas Calcott, 2019](https://img.artlogic.net/w_1008,h_756,c_lfill/exhibit-e/605b6d0c5395593d9b3b6092/86bce1a0df644a86de946f8b08f84534.jpeg)
Previous generations of abstract painters described their rectangular coloured compositions as either representations of universal and harmonic balance - like Mondrian or Malevich; or as evocations of the Supreme, notions beyond human understanding - such as Newman or Rothko.
Halley suggests another way of interpreting geometric abstraction. For the artist, it can be re-interpreted as an analogy of the underlying structures that govern technological societies.
In his essays, the artist exposes his case like a re-contextualized abstraction that represents not an escape towards mysticism, but a social and aesthetic critic.