Lotto 3408* - A207 Postwar e contemporary art - giovedì, 30. novembre 2023, 14h00
VICTOR VASARELY
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre peint de Victor Vasarely, which is currently being compiled by the Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence.
Provenance:
- Jet-Art, Paris (verso with the label).
- Private collection Switzerland.
"In my kinetic depth images, the viewer in motion plays the most important role. When he looks at them from a fixed point of view, he sees only two forms that overlap because of the transparency of the surfaces. But as soon as he moves, as soon as he goes forward, steps back or wanders past the picture, it changes incessantly, the emotional shocks follow on from one another without respite, and the work begins to live, to diversify visually." Victor Vasarely
In this two-dimensional composition, created in 1984, the artist uses only black, white and grey. With sharp contrasts of light and dark and painterly means, Victor Vasarely expertly conjures up the optical imagination and the almost unbearable vibration of complementary colours. He blurs the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional forms, between painting and sculpture, giving the static image offered here the appearance of dynamic movement. He allows the uniform squares of various sizes, which serve as a functional element in the play with perception, to swell up in the middle of the painting. This gives the viewer the impression of fluctuating movement in space and the central round shape seems to emerge from the canvas in relief.
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