Optical Spaces: The Art of Victor Vasarely
Erarta Museum presents drawings, paintings and kinetic sculptures by Victor Vasarely, the founder of Op Art movement. 鈥淎n artwork shouldn鈥檛 be confused with the environment, it is stand out of it鈥� 鈥� said Victor Vasarely (1906鈥�1997). The art of Vasarely is presented by painting, prints, kinetic objects and several abstract films which full of a desire to deceive a human perception, to force our consciousness to create an image, while the image on canvas is actually missing.
At the exhibition you can see famous zebras, woven from monochrome lines, football players, disassembled into pixels, numerous paintings with three-dimensional effect, industrial design objects, unique Vasarely鈥檚 self-portrait as well as 鈥淪pace鈥� collage, the only work of art in the world which had been in outer space. The 鈥淪pace鈥� collage was on board of the 鈥淪oyuz T-6鈥� spacecraft and at the 鈥淪alyut 7鈥� space station in 1982. Following the key ideas of Op Art all works by Vasarely are designed to change our ordinary view of the world, forcing the mind to look for a new point for understanding unusual visual experience.
Vasarely鈥檚 inventions in the use of colors and optical illusion have become extremely popular in the 1960鈥�1970 and had a huge influence on contemporary artists, designers and graphic artists. Vasarely's concept of Colorful City, which resides at the intersection between art and urbanism and deals with problems of the organization and design of urban spaces, is of the most relevant parts of his legacy today.
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Erarta Museum presents drawings, paintings and kinetic sculptures by Victor Vasarely, the founder of Op Art movement. 鈥淎n artwork shouldn鈥檛 be confused with the environment, it is stand out of it鈥� 鈥� said Victor Vasarely (1906鈥�1997). The art of Vasarely is presented by painting, prints, kinetic objects and several abstract films which full of a desire to deceive a human perception, to force our consciousness to create an image, while the image on canvas is actually missing.
At the exhibition you can see famous zebras, woven from monochrome lines, football players, disassembled into pixels, numerous paintings with three-dimensional effect, industrial design objects, unique Vasarely鈥檚 self-portrait as well as 鈥淪pace鈥� collage, the only work of art in the world which had been in outer space. The 鈥淪pace鈥� collage was on board of the 鈥淪oyuz T-6鈥� spacecraft and at the 鈥淪alyut 7鈥� space station in 1982. Following the key ideas of Op Art all works by Vasarely are designed to change our ordinary view of the world, forcing the mind to look for a new point for understanding unusual visual experience.
Vasarely鈥檚 inventions in the use of colors and optical illusion have become extremely popular in the 1960鈥�1970 and had a huge influence on contemporary artists, designers and graphic artists. Vasarely's concept of Colorful City, which resides at the intersection between art and urbanism and deals with problems of the organization and design of urban spaces, is of the most relevant parts of his legacy today.
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