Victor Vasarely, paintings

In the category of Op art visual artists, Victor Vasarely is by far the most famous, as he was also the founder of this movement.

His early abstract compositions often stemmed from observations of nature or his immediate surroundings. Thus, he constructed his first works from details such as the ebb and flow of the sea at the edge of the beach, pebbles rolling in the sand, among other things.

His artistic explorations led him to develop space within his compositions, a recurring theme that fascinated him, by dispensing with the classical form of central perspective in a work of art. To achieve this, he created what he called "plastic units," made of colors and geometric shapes, infinitely renewable. In this way, he created multiple works with optical effects that constantly permute space.

The exhibition features around fifty paintings and a dozen prints, brought together in collaboration with the Galerie Lahumière, Paris, as well as four works from the Peter C. Ruppert collection at the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg. The exhibition's layout will trace the evolution of Victor Vasarely's work, from his creation in Paris in the 1950s to the advent of Op art.

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