Victor Vasarely – The Rediscovery of the Painter

Museum Haus Konstruktiv is pleased to be able to present the long-awaited exhibition "Victor Vasarely – The Rediscovery of the Painter". The intention behind this exhibition, curated by Serge Lemoine with high-quality loaned pieces from major private collections and internationally renowned museums, is to demonstrate the talent of an extraordinary painter, whose work has been wrongly forgotten in recent years. Already during his time as a student at the art school Műhely, the so-called "Budapest Bauhaus", Vasarely (b. 1906 in Pécs, Hungary, d. 1997 in Paris) experimented with spatial effects. After moving to Paris in the year 1930, he worked as a commercial graphic designer and simultaneously began to formulate his artistic language of forms. As a contemporary of the Zurich Concretists Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, Camille Graeser and Verena Loewensberg, Vasarely had a lot in common with their concept of art. However, at the end of the 1940s, Vasarely began to move in a different direction. In this regard, Serge Lemoine writes that Vasarely "gave priority to the composition, to the relationships and contrasts, to playing with color tones, and integrated the phenomena of perception into his work more and more."