Anoka Faruqee: The Visible Spectrum — Abstract Painting Exhibition at Secession

This exhibition showcases the abstract paintings of American artist Anoka Faruqee, known for their pulsating optical and chromatic effects. The show features works from 2012 onwards, exploring moiré patterns and their relationship to visual phenomena and artistic structure.

The abstract paintings of American artist Anoka Faruqee are characterized by their pulsating, optical, and chromatic effects. Recurring motifs in her work include patterns and textures that she meticulously adjusts and varies through small permutations to explore the laws of painting. A central concern is creating tension between atmospheric light impressions and illusions, as well as the materiality of color. At the Secession, in what is her first institutional exhibition in Europe, Faruqee presents a selection of her Moiré Paintings, Circle Paintings, and Wave Paintings created since 2012. She engages with the moiré pattern, an optical phenomenon arising from interference in wave formations, magnetic fields, and on computer screens, understanding it not as surface decoration but as a physical structure built from modular forms and colors. Her paintings exhibit a modeled shimmer and significant depth dynamics, with visually interconnected layers of the pattern shifting between motion and stillness through elusive overlaps of viewpoints. Faruqee's process involves applying paint wetly and drawing through it with spatulas, creating a paradoxical fusion of meticulous perfection with moments of manual imperfection—tremors of the hand, or running paint—which she views as the crucial element breathing life into her art, translating between the theoretical and the tangible, the virtual and the physical.

This exhibition is presented at the Secession. Visitors can find ticketing information via the provided link to the official shop. Entry details are generally managed by the institution, and specific exhibition access would follow standard museum admission policies unless otherwise stated. Information on booking and admission can be sought through the provided ticketing link.