Al Held Pradorama 1991

In Al Held’s Pradorama (1991), matrixed configurations of suspended geometries create a sense of dimensional, expanded depth within the pictorial limitations of the lithograph. Perimeters and circumferences of hollowed rectangles and cylinders appear stretched and elastic among the intervening array of solid triangles, whose extreme angles suggest movement through space. Comprising a limited palette of red, yellow, blue and green, the arrangement of forms is offset by the narrow, elongated opening of a maroon rectangle. Held’s sparse use of shade and shadow in this composition implies the organisation of geometric information as if within a vacuum, imaging multidimensional space without a centre.