Pensar la Pintura

Conversation with Peter Halley, Guillermo Solana and Enrique Juncosa

Cycle Converses Pendents VI

• Date: 21 de març de 2025
• Time: 19 h
• Place: Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani
• Space: Auditori
• Free activity

Es Baluard Museu presents a meeting between the painter Peter Halley, the artistic director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Guillermo Solana, and the exhibition curator and writer, Enrique Juncosa. The activity is part of both the cycle Pensar la pintura promoted by Es Baluard Museu and the Converses pendents programmed by Casal Solleric in different spaces around the city.

Es Baluard Museu will host this three-way conversation as a prelude to the opening of the exhibition Peter Halley a Espanya which will be presented at Casal Solleric on Saturday, March 22. This exhibition is the first Halley retrospective in Spain since the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía organised it in 1992 and covers the artist’s entire career, from 1985 to 2024.

The conversation between Peter Halley, Guillermo Solana and Enrique Juncosa will be in English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish.

Peter Halley (New York, 1953) is one of the most influential artists on the international scene. He became known in the mid-eighties as the driving force behind the so-called Neo-Conceptualist movement. Although he uses geometry as the fundamental support for his works, he always insists on his figurative reference: the space and time of our society, its political and social terrain, the closed order in which we live. His cold, rectilinear forms are the plastic expression of our complex urban landscape: rectangular cells connected by networks of ducts, prisons, diagrams, isolated organisms. The characteristic Roll-a-tex texture and expressive use of colours also remind us of our social environment, establishing affiliations with Pop Art, digital information and mass culture.