Graphics, paintings and kinetic sculptures - more than a hundred works of the founder of op art, Victor Vasarely is in Moscow the guardian extensive collection of Katie Cephei (Hungary)

CSI "Winery", 4-25 October 2014
Moscow, 4-й Syromyatnicheskiy lane, 1/8, page6

In the red hall CSI "Winery" opened the exhibition "Optical space Victor Vasarely". Graphics, paintings and kinetic sculptures — just over one hundred works by the founder of op-арта Victor Vasarely is in Moscow the guardian extensive collection of Katie Cephei (Ingria).

"Artwork — not something that can be confused with the environment, and what differs from it", — spoke Vasarely. The career of Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997) — this paintings, drawings (prints), kinetic objects and abstract several films that combines the desire to deceive human perception, to force the mind to create an image that is actually on the canvas otsutstvujushiy.

the exhibits — famous Zebra woven from black and white lines, the player down for "pixels", numerous paintings with three-dimensional effect, the subject of industrial design, unique picturesque portrait of the master, and only in the world of art, who had been in space, — collage "Space". The picture was on Board the spacecraft Soyuz T-6" and on the space station "Salyut 7" in 1982. All work Vasarely, in accordance with credo op-арта are somehow modify our usual view of the world, forcing the mind to find a new foothold for understanding the unusual visual opyta.

Innovation Vasarely in the use of color and optical illusions have become extremely popular in the 1960s and 70s,-х years and greatly influenced contemporary artists, designers and graphic artists. One of the most important parts of his legacy — located at the intersection of art and urbanism concept colorful cities, which considers the problems of organization and arrangement of urban prostranstve.

the last 30 years, the exhibition of works by Vasarely from the collection Tibor and Katie Cepei have already visited half of the world. But at the Moscow exhibition, which will cover all the main periods of creative activity Vasarely, will host a premiere: Katie Cephei will present one anywhere else before exhibited work of the famous wingra.

Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) was born in pécs (Hungary), teaching painting began in the Academy Mucha, known as the "Budapest Bauhaus. After the first solo exhibition (1930) moved to Paris, where he worked as a graphic and artistic Advisor in various advertising agencies. The first solo of the Paris exhibition was held in 1944 at the Galerie Denise rené, around which joined the group of avant-garde artists, headed Vasarely.

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