Exhibition catalogue Vasarely - Tribute (bilingual edition)

A key figure in kinetic art (or ‘Op Art’ as in optical art), Victor Vasarely attained distinction in twentieth century art history for his prolific abstract geometric pieces. A true master of composition, Vasarely combined, connected, swapped and assembled geometric elements with an accomplished vision, advocating formal minimalism and optical effects.

The exhibition at the Musée d'lxelles (Belgium), in partnership with the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (Switzerland) and the EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Finland), is the first exhibition in a long time to be exclusively devoted to Vasarely's paintings and highlights the orignality of his création. It comprises more than sixty impressive paintings from 1947 to 1979 which illustrate the two essential components of his oeuvre, his black and white and his color work, and the main compositional groupings and arrangements of forms which he adopted. The visual richness and undeniable beauty of the paintings exhibited reveal what a great painter Vaserely was.