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Kazys Varnelis. Lithuanian Op Classicist
Organised in partnership with the MO Museum in Vilnius, this group exhibition presents a diverse set of paintings, drawings, installations and video art by artists over several generations, whose works are of great significance in light of the history of their nation, Lithuania. All recent acquisitions by the Museum, these works testify to practices that have gone largely unseen in art history in Western Europe due to forced isolation or repression during the Soviet occupation, as well as more recent works that already enjoy international recognition.
In parallel, the work of Kazys Varnelis (1917-2010) is being presented for the first time in France. Having spent most of his career in the USA, from 1949 to 1998, Kazys Varnelis produced a body of work that reflected the Op Art movement that was at its height at the time. The singularity of his work lies in his preference for monochrome colour palettes, the laying out of seemingly cylindrical segments and the use of the shaped canvas (paintings whose shape itself is significant).
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Organised in partnership with the MO Museum in Vilnius, this group exhibition presents a diverse set of paintings, drawings, installations and video art by artists over several generations, whose works are of great significance in light of the history of their nation, Lithuania. All recent acquisitions by the Museum, these works testify to practices that have gone largely unseen in art history in Western Europe due to forced isolation or repression during the Soviet occupation, as well as more recent works that already enjoy international recognition.
In parallel, the work of Kazys Varnelis (1917-2010) is being presented for the first time in France. Having spent most of his career in the USA, from 1949 to 1998, Kazys Varnelis produced a body of work that reflected the Op Art movement that was at its height at the time. The singularity of his work lies in his preference for monochrome colour palettes, the laying out of seemingly cylindrical segments and the use of the shaped canvas (paintings whose shape itself is significant).
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