Dimensions: support: 2032 x 2032 mm
Copyright: © Paul Huxley | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Paul Huxley's "Untitled No. 92," and it’s quite large. The geometric shapes create a sense of organized tension, almost like a blueprint for a building that exists only in the mind. What do you make of its arrangement? Curator: It's like a visual poem, isn't it? Those triangles seem to be dancing – rising or perhaps falling, who knows! The color blocks add a playful element, a sense of controlled chaos. I wonder what Huxley was feeling when he made this. Editor: It's certainly more evocative than I initially thought! I appreciate how you see movement in the shapes. Curator: Art is a conversation, isn't it? A dialogue between the artist, the artwork, and us. Each viewing adds a new layer to the story.
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Like the artists whose work was shown in the 1960 exhibition Situation, Huxley’s work shows a concern with the formal properties of painting. Here the series of triangles that diminish in size suggests a three dimensional space, as if the lower triangles are nearer than the higher ones. But at the same time the flat bands of colour at the top right emphasise the flatness of the surface. The largest triangle leads the eye to the bottom of the picture, a device Huxley often used to draw attention to the area of the painting below eye-level. Gallery label, September 2004
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