Michael Kidner

7 Sep-11 Oct 2011

Overview

‘Unless you read a painting as a feeling, then you don’t get anything at all.’ A pioneer of Optical Art, Michael Kidner devoted much of his career to developing work of a constructive nature. His interests in mathematics, science and chaos, wave, number and big bang theories informed an art that is at once rational and playful. Kidner’s translation of the dialogue between order and indeterminacy into a visual language has meant that his work – though founded in a rigorous intellectual approach to colour and form – also resonates emotionally. His interest in unpredictable world events fuelled an emphasis on unplanned elements within his work, whilst paradoxically continuing to assert underlying order through form.