With his Prison and Cell paintings, American artist Peter Halley (*1953) manifested the reasoning, interdependencies and organizational forms of the artwork and the social space.Since the 1980s, Peter Halley has examined in his geometrical abstract painting and site-specific installations the spatial as well as communication and organizational structures that dominate everyday life.In an installation exclusively developed for the free accessible Rotunda of the SCHIRN in Frankfurt, Halley has worked intensively with the quite specific spatial conditions.The combination of various motives from the spectrum of the artist's oeuvre creates both an explosive energy field and an analytical map of his work.Halley forms a cell for a key work from his historical oeuvre; an art work that could hardly be any larger, more elaborate, or more expansive and which, in turn, feeds back to the original nucleus of the artist's creative power.Published on the occasion of the The Schirn Ring commission at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 12 May - 21 August 2016.English and German text