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Artist:	Vasarely, Victor (1906 - 1997)
Title:	Erebus
Medium:	Cut Crystal Sculpture
Image Size:	13 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 in (33cm x 24.1cm x 2.5cm)
Signed:	Victor Vasarely (1906 – 1997) signature etched into the glass in the lower right
Edition:	From the total edition of 2000.
Condition:	This work is in pristine condition.
Gallery Price: Item# 2804	Sorry, this item is sold. Please visit the rest of our Vasarely fine art collection

Historical Description:
The effect this work has when light reflects off the surface, creates a wonderful array of prismatic highlights and rainbows. Comprised of minimal lines, shapes and colors, the complexity of this work is realized in the viewer’s interaction with this piece. Created in 1982, this glass sculpture was published by Rosenthal in an edition of 2,000. Numbered on the bottom of the base with the publisher’s name, date, and Vasarely’s stamped signature, this work has an additional etched signature by Victor Vasarely in the lower right. Professor Eugen Gomringer of the Düsseldorf Art Academy stated of this work, “The Glass object ‘Erebus’ belongs to a particularly rich group of works of Victor Vasarely…he worked…for a long time and researched…the ‘movements in the surface’, on the deformation of the area by line networks… On the basis of realizations of the theory of Relativity, wave mechanics and the cybernetics he found in the play between certainty and uncertainty a source of poetic inspiration. The conception of ‘Erebus’ exists a linear structure in the change of an even, perpendicular structure through the interruption by means of a number of unequal blisters. These cause an enlargement of the perpendicular structure within their range, i.e. they function like lenses. The effect is irregularity, aliveness, a play without stopping. The transparent material "glass" suits such a concept particularly well, as the oval lenses are even actually now from the material from which lenses normally are, from glass. The sense of a work of the kinetic phase finds the most suitable means in the material ‘glass’.” (translated from German, Rosenthal catalogue) Illustrated In: 1. Includes documentation from publisher, Circle Fine Art Corporation (San Francisco).

Historical Description:

The effect this work has when light reflects off the surface, creates a wonderful array of prismatic highlights and rainbows. Comprised of minimal lines, shapes and colors, the complexity of this work is realized in the viewer’s interaction with this piece. Created in 1982, this glass sculpture was published by Rosenthal in an edition of 2,000. Numbered on the bottom of the base with the publisher’s name, date, and Vasarely’s stamped signature, this work has an additional etched signature by Victor Vasarely in the lower right. Professor Eugen Gomringer of the Düsseldorf Art Academy stated of this work, “The Glass object ‘Erebus’ belongs to a particularly rich group of works of Victor Vasarely…he worked…for a long time and researched…the ‘movements in the surface’, on the deformation of the area by line networks… On the basis of realizations of the theory of Relativity, wave mechanics and the cybernetics he found in the play between certainty and uncertainty a source of poetic inspiration.
The conception of ‘Erebus’ exists a linear structure in the change of an even, perpendicular structure through the interruption by means of a number of unequal blisters. These cause an enlargement of the perpendicular structure within their range, i.e. they function like lenses. The effect is irregularity, aliveness, a play without stopping. The transparent material "glass" suits such a concept particularly well, as the oval lenses are even actually now from the material from which lenses normally are, from glass. The sense of a work of the kinetic phase finds the most suitable means in the material ‘glass’.” (translated from German, Rosenthal catalogue)

Illustrated In:
1. Includes documentation from publisher, Circle Fine Art Corporation (San Francisco).

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Biography of Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (1906 - 1997)

A personal recollection (by Alex Adelman): I was very fortunate to have met Victor Vasarely several times and will always remember him as a very warm, funny, charming, intelligent man. However, what struck me most about him was that he had a child-like innocence and wonderment toward both people and the world around him. The last time I saw him, a year or so ago, I remember fondly watching him play Yvaral several games of chess. Needless to say, he beat Yvaral each time! We shared a glass of wine, chocolates and then he entertained us with Hungarian folk songs. It was a truly fun and memorable occasion!

Internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Victor Vasarely is the acknowledged leader of the Op Art movement, and his innovations in color and optical illusion have had a strong influence on many modern artists.

In 1947, Vasarely discovered his place in abstract art. Influenced by his experiences at Breton Beach of Belle Isle, he concluded that "internal geometry" could be seen below the surface of the entire world. He conceived that form and color are inseparable. "Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form." Forms from nature were thus transposed into purely abstract elements in his paintings. Recognizing the inner geometry of nature, Vasarely wrote, "the ellipsoid form...will slowly, but tenaciously, take hold of the surface, and become its raison d'etre. Henceforth, this ovoid form will signify in all my works of this period, the 'oceanic feeling'...I can no longer admit an inner world and another, an outer world, apart. The within and the without communicate by osmosis, or, one might rather say: the spatial-material universe, energetic-living, feeling-thinking, form a whole, indivisible... The languages of the spirit are but the supervibrations of the great physical nature."

Victor Vasarely was born in Pecs, Hungary in 1906. After receiving his baccalaureate degree in 1925, he began studying art at the Podolini-Volkmann Academy in Budapest. In 1928, he transferred to the Muhely Academy, also known as the Budapest Bauhaus, where he studied with Alexander Bortnijik. At the Academy, he became familiar with the contemporary research in color and optics by Jaohannes Itten, Josef Albers, and the Constructivists Malevich and Kandinsky.

After his first one-man show in 1930, at the Kovacs Akos Gallery in Budapest, Vasarely moved to Paris. For the next thirteen years, he devoted himself to graphic studies. His lifelong fascination with linear patterning led him to draw figurative and abstract patterned subjects, such as his series of harlequins, checkers, tigers, and zebras. During this period, Vasarely also created multi-dimensional works of art by super-imposing patterned layers of cellophane on one another to attain the illusion of depth.

In 1943, Vasarely began to work extensively in oils, creating both abstract and figurative canvases. His first Parisian exhibition was the following year at the Galerie Denise Rene which he helped found. Vasarely became the recognized leader of the avant-garde group of artists affiliated with the gallery.

In 1955, Galerie Denise Rene hosted a major group exhibition in connection with Vasarely's painting experiments with movement. This was the first important exhibition of kinetic art and included works by Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Soto, and Jean Tinguely, among others.

During the 1950's, Vasarely wrote a series of manifestos on the use of optical phenomena for artistic purposes. Together with his paintings and Vasarely prints, these were a significant influence on younger artists. According to the artist, "In the last analysis, the picture-object in pure composition appears to me as the last link in the family 'paintings,' still possessing by its shining beauty, an end in itself. But it is already more than a painting, the forms and colors which compose it are still situated on the plane, but the plastic event which they trigger fuses in front of and in the plane. It is thereby an end, but also a beginning, a kind of launching pad for future achievements."

Today, Victor Vasarely's prints, paintings, collages and sculptures are celebrated in numerous exhibits all around the world.

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