This exhibition of paintings by the American neo-conceptualist Peter Halley, is marking the third exhibition of the artist’s works with the gallery. (Previous shows took place in 2009 in Gstaad and in 2013 in St. Moritz.)

Arranged over both floors of the newly inaugurated gallery in Gstaad are 14 of Halley‘s signature diagrammatic paintings spanning 30 years of production. The earliest piece, Black Cell, dates from 1988, and the most recent, Breakthrough, from 2018-19, the latter an evolution of the former. Executed in combinations of acrylic, Day-Glo, Roll-a-Tex, metallic and pearlescent paint, the majority of the works feature Halley‘s characteristic linked square and rectangular units — each feeding into the other in an endless feedback system. Known for his interest in circuitry, urban spaces and geometric abstraction, these past and newer works — whose constitutive units Halley dubs ‘cells’ and ‘prisons’ — take on renewed resonance in light of recent events. Into these striking works can be read the isolation of individuals in subdivided spaces and the complete reliance on digital systems since the onset of COVID-19. With his eye to the future, Halley‘s work is both prescient and seductive in its seeming simplicity.