Julio
Le Parc
Julio
Le Parc
Le Parc
In the early 1960s, Julio Le Parc, co-founder of GRAV, defines his working principle as follows: “To limit the artwork to a strictly visual situation” and “to establish a more precise relation between the artwork and the human eye.” He then focuses on the kinetic insights of Op Art. In line with his research on the modulations of light, he explores the phenomenological potential of movement.
The visitors' active participation is a key factor in how Julio Le Parc designs his productions; the viewer experiences his work through displacement. The gaze is lost, the hands barely touch and the body blends with the artwork. The path around, in and through the artwork defies the mechanisms of perception. Through his installations, the artist thus experiments the “vision in motion” theorized by László Moholy-Nagy.
Julio Le Parc's work was shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
The visitors' active participation is a key factor in how Julio Le Parc designs his productions; the viewer experiences his work through displacement. The gaze is lost, the hands barely touch and the body blends with the artwork. The path around, in and through the artwork defies the mechanisms of perception. Through his installations, the artist thus experiments the “vision in motion” theorized by László Moholy-Nagy.
Julio Le Parc's work was shown by the Pinault Collection in the exhibition The Illusion of Light at Palazzo Grassi, in 2014.
