In the Gallery: Daniel Belasco on Al Held | White Cube

Daniel Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation, explores the artist’s monumental exhibition ‘Al Held: About Space’ at White Cube Bermondsey (2024). Bringing together masterworks from across the artist’s five-decade career, the selection reveals the extent to which Held realised novel modes of form, space and colour in painting through a combination of hard-edged geometry and spontaneous gestural expression. ‘These are optimistic paintings. [Al Held] was trying to find some kind of harmony or balance within these competing truths in the world, and so for him it was a leap of positive faith that there can be some kind of singular structure that underlines all the chaos’ – Daniel Belasco Find out more about the exhibition: Video: STORYA #AlHeld #WhiteCube #WhiteCubeBermondsey