of 10/11/21 to 08/05/22
In 2021, the Vasarely Foundation celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its recognition as a public utility, on September 27, 1971, by symbolically reuniting in a double exhibition the very places of its creation, the Château de Gordes and the Centre architectonique d’Aix-en-Provence. This fiftieth anniversary exhibition retraces Victor Vasarely’s first thoughts on his grand design, from his 1966 written formulation, “My Foundation Project”, as well as the stages of the realization of a unique cultural project. “Art will be a common treasure or will not be” presents through a rich collection of archive documents, original works, texts and photographs, the circumstances of the creation of the Centre d’architecture d’Aix-en-Provence, inaugurated in 1976, a place of demonstration of the plastic language for the great ensembles and the Cité polychrome du bonheur. Pascale Girard and Pierre Vasarely
Extra charge of €3 . 1h. . French, English
The exhibition at the Centre Architectonique in Aix-en-Provence looks back at all the decisive stages of his artistic development. The plastic alphabet imagined by Victor Vasarely is composed of units made up of two elements that fit into each other, that can be interchanged and also combined with others: a square that plays the role of background and in which smaller geometric shapes, circles, ellipses, rectangles, triangles and rhombuses are included. This play of shapes is completed by the play of colours. For Vasarely, the “multiple” is an original which, at the moment of its birth, is not one, but one hundred or more. The important thing is the plastic idea from which one starts and which is a unique composition, but conceived in such a way that it is not limited to a single copy. Whatever work one creates, there is always an original, but until now, this original was the ultimate goal of its creator. For Vasarely, the original is only a starting point. “You know that for me the original is not the easel painting, but the starting prototype which plays the role of a score and can provide the origin of either a canvas, a fresco, a tapestry, an architectural integration or finally a “multiple”.
Agence Y2. Airelles – La Bastide de Gordes. Aixia. Artprice. Les Amis de la Fondation Vasarely Les Bories. CEPAC. Centre Pompidou. Christie’s. In Extenso. Labio. LeFranc Bourgeois. Mécénat G. & B. Sousi. Michaël Zingraf. Milhe &. Avons. Renault Gordes. Ressource. Imprimerie Rimbaud. Rosier Immobilier. SMC. Sotheby’s. Sully Patrimoine. Villa Beaulieu.
Catalogue of the exhibition Under the direction of Pauline Mari 118 pages in French and English / Rimbaud edition
The Vasarely Foundation: 50 years of future
Art will be a common treasure or it will not be!
From 10 November 2021 to 8 May 2022Presentation
Curators of the exhibition
Thanks to the sponsors of the exhibition
Authors: Robert Jourdan, Pauline Mari and Pierre Vasarely
Interviews by : Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Bernard Blistène and Rudy Ricciotti
Price: 39 eurosSelection of works
