Concepts & Cinetisme

The concept of ‘art concret’, also born in the 1920s, has resurfaced with artists working directly with line, geometry and color, rejecting any formal rapport with nature or sentimentality.

Geneviève Claisse is one of the artists who shook up the 1960s and 1970s, first with angular forms, exclusively in black and white, then in parallel with these subtle triangulations, with works based on the circle and its variations. This marked the start of a striking period of unprecedented aesthetic research of the infinite possibilities offered by this element. The colors, back again, are always pure and boldly organized.

Claisse plays with contrasts, chromatic agreements and disagreements, venturing into subtle directions while maintaining an appearance of great simplicity.

Kinetic and Optical art are also revolutionary concepts. Victor Vasarely, Fransisco Sobrino, Horacio Garcia Rossi and Julio Le Parc, have created and developed this new movement which aimed to involve the viewer directly and to include a disruptive notion in art. They overthrew pictorial conventions and added a new dimension thanks to the viewer’s movement. The strength and audacity of these artists lies in giving the illusion of movement without actually creating any.

The depersonalization of the act of painting takes on its full meaning.

Jorge Eielson, a Peruvian artist who has also invented a new mode of artistic expression, transforms a painted surface into a space for exchange, where pre-Columbian culture is expressed through a contemporary piece. He hijacks the ‘Quipus’ (an ancient communication system of the Inca empire) and reinterprets it conceptually, combining painting, poetry, sculpture and performance in a single creation.

Claudine Dray creates a poetic, sensitive universe from a pure, delicate material: silk paper and tengucho. From this raw material, the artist creates 3D relief paintings in which pure white predominates: she crumples, folds, tears and glues, giving rise to silhouettes, landscapes and worlds where light penetrates through transparency – a world that seems animated by spiritual forces, a source of emotions open to contemplation.