Electric Op
With a rich collection of modern and contemporary art in which abstraction plays a central role, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (United States) are presenting a major new exhibition exploring the historical, theoretical, and formal connections between optical art and video and digital art, from the 1960s to the present day.
In the 1960s, Op art spread widely across the visual arts and popular culture, championed by artists such as Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam, and Jesús Rafael Soto. Placing the viewer’s experience at the heart of their approach, Op artists used optical effects to challenge and disrupt visual perception.
Catalogue
Bilingual English/French catalogue of the exhibition Electric Op: From Optical Art to Digital Art, presented at the Musée d’arts de Nantes from 4 April to 31 August 2025.