A new Exhibition ‘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 the internet, he’s often been credited as having somehow predicted the future in his art.

Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s which focuses on the paintings that Halley made during the early stages of his career is open until the 15th of October.

For more info go to: www.mudam.com/exhibitions/condui…ngs-from-the-1980s