Peter Halley and Alessandro Mendini at Mary Boone (Hand Signed by Peter Halley), 2013

Peter Halley and Alessandro Mendini at Mary Boone (Hand Signed by Peter Halley), 2013

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Offset lithograph poster
Hand signed by Peter Halley in black marker on the front
Provenance: Obtained directly from the artist
(Accompanied by a photograph of Peter Halley signing this work in his studio)
Unframed
Ideal for Halley fans, as well as fans of Mendini and Italian postmodern design, architecture and artist-designer collaborations.
This is an exhibition poster for a 2013 show featuring artists Peter Halley and renowned Milanese-based architect Alessandro Mendini. The exhibition was held at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City from May 2 to June 29, 2013. The artwork showcases Mendini's "Wall Paper Milano" design as the background, with Halley's geometric paintings displayed on top.
Below is a contemporaneous description of this celebrated exhibition:
peter halley + alessandro mendinimary boone gallery 745 fifth avenue, new york, USA on view now through 29 june 2013

new york-based artist peter halley and milan-based architect and designer alessandro mendini have, for the first time, collaborated in the united states. halley’s high-keyed minimalist paintings meet mendini’s dynamically colored wall murals in a series of nine new works. the artist revisits his long-held conceptual trope of cell and prison imagery, now playfully mediated with the architect’s bright geometric wall paper hues. the paintings jut out or hover freely above their solid backgrounds, serving to spatialize the three meter wide printed modules repeated throughout the gallery. halley, who has long been interested in the interaction between his paintings and architecture, invited mendini to design the wall mural to create an intense interaction between his painting and the architectural setting created by mendini’s intervention. to create this site-specific work, the artist and designer corresponded through an exchange of designs and samples, which provoked a conversation about their mutual influences, creative practices, and the space of the gallery.