Ara City Radio

A new Exhibition called Conduits: Paintings From the 1980s by American Artist Peter Halley opened last week at MUDAM. Tom went down on opening night to check out the exhibition and got a chance to talk to Peter about his work. Peter Halley is an artist that began his career in the 1980s when he developed a highly personal style of painting that gained him international recognition as one of the leading artists in a movement called neo-conceptualism. His paintings are made up of a series of brightly colored squares, rectangles and straight line "conduits" that connect different areas of the canvas. Looking at them you get a sense of things like circuit boards, electrical connections or even abstracted urban architecture and buildings connected by roads and paths. Halley’s paintings deal with subjects like communication, urban life and our increasing interaction with electronic and even digital worlds. And given that he developed this style of painting at a time before the dawn of the cell phone or even t