Fill up on color and optical effects at the Vasarely Foundation

The South-East exhibition, in partnership with the Center Pompidou, is held at the Vasarely Foundation until the end of January.

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• In collaboration with the Center Pompidou, the Vasarely Foundation exhibits around twenty works by great names in kinetic art from Eastern Europe and South America.

• Called “South East”, this exhibition boosts morale, as do the monumental works of the father of Op Art which form the heart of the permanent collection.

• Cultural mediation is at the heart of the Foundation's project: during school holidays it is daily.

Phones in hand, a cluster of children attempt the reflective selfie.

Neon, mirrors, transformers, steel and lacquered wood, the work of Piotr Kowalski titillates the retina, just like the optical games of Franco-Venezuelan Carlos Cruz-Diez, whose acrylics on wood are aptly named:

They come from the Center Pompidou, which continues its partnership with the Vasarely Foundation with this exhibition until the end of January at the Jas de Bouffan, in Aix-en-Provence, called “Sud-Est”.

"It's a positive exhibition, it can cheer us up, and it is participatory", smiles Sandrine Rey, head of the cultural mediation center, welcoming "a contemporary art that speaks to everyone".

In total, around twenty works by Beaubourg are visible, some for the first time in Aix and in any case never presented together.

These contemporaries of Vasarely, all great names emblematic of kinetic art, are native to Eastern Europe and South America.

“Paris was a meeting place for artists concerned with questions of dynamism, light and more generally vision,” recalls Michel Gauthier, curator of the exhibition and curator at the National Museum of Modern Art.

Victor Vasarely is present with

variation of blues and greens whose technique - circles and squares cut from thick paper - evokes Matisse's cut-outs and creates a visual effect.

Some trainees from E2C Marseille went to @FVasarely on September 11 for a vernissage.

🤩⭐They discovered different works by artist Victor Vasarely, part of which comes from the Center Pompidou in Paris.

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"Baby Art" workshop

“I love the color, the shapes, all this magic of painting that changes depending on where you look at it,” says Carla, as her granddaughter is bent over a coloring page designed from a work from the permanent collection.

Both take part in a holiday workshop: the Foundation organizes school holidays every day, in all areas, in addition to the many public meetings scheduled during the year.

A habit that she resumed upon reopening after confinement, even if for the moment the gauge remains limited.

"This mediation is part of the Foundation's DNA, it is written into its statutes," says Sandrine Rey.

Basically, Vasarely defends an art for all, accessible to all, hence a monumental integration to show art in the street.

The Foundation even offers a “Baby Art” workshop two Wednesdays a month to share with the family with their babies from 12 months old.

"We place ourselves in the heart of the lower cells, and we offer artistic awareness in a playful atmosphere, with stickers, shapes, colors," says Sandrine Rey.

Launched last year, these workshops have found their audience.

After all, there is no age for artistic experiences.

Workshops, guided tours and stories for children from 3 to 13 years old by reservation on 04 42 20 01 09. Prices: 16 euros / child, 12 euros / guide.

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