L'exposition « Topographies de la lumière » réunit treize artistes internationaux, d'horizons et de générations différents : Jeanne Berbinau Aubry, Paul Créange, Christophe Dahlhausen, Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves, Helga Griffiths, Gun Gordillo, Dominic Grisor, Pascal Haudressy, Quentin Lefranc, Prosper Legault, Gladys Nistor, Nathaniel Rackowe, Vera Röhm. Ils placent tous la lumière artificielle au coeur de leurs recherches plastiques, dans la filiation des expérimentations inaugurées au XXe siècle par Moholy-Nagy, puis développées dans les années 1950 à 1970 par Kosice et Fontana, les tenants de l'art optico-cinétique et du Light and Space. Leurs oeuvres lumineuses (installation, vidéo, sculpture, relief, projection) définissent de nouveaux territoires, laissent place à l'imaginaire. Modifiant les regards, les perceptions et les espaces, elles provoquent des expériences visuelles et sensorielles qui amènent à nous interroger sur notre perception du réel et ses limites.

Topographies de la lumière

Beauté rationnelle

Docteur en histoire de l'art contemporain, Domitille d'Orgeval 
est spécialiste de l'art abstrait des années 1950-1960 et des 
relations entre l'art et l'architecture au XXe siècle. Elle a 
contribué à de nombreux catalogues d'exposition, notamment 
François More/let, réinstallations (Centre Pompidou, 2011), 
Georges Vantongerloo 1886-1965. Un pionnier de la sculpture 
moderne (Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-
Cambrésis, 2007). Elle participe actuellement comme 
commissaire associée à la préparation de l'exposition 
"Lumineux ! Dynamique ! Vision, espace et abstraction dans 
l'art de nos jours à 1913", qui se tiendra au printemps 2013 
aux Galeries nationales du Grand Palais.

Pierre Sabatier sculpteur

Martha le Parc

Victor Vasarely was one of the most celebrated artists of the second half of the 20th century. His rich and varied pictorial oeuvre in the field of geometric abstraction is founded on fine and color, contrast and rhythm. His architectural works, from the Caracas university campus to the building for his Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, are testimony to his desire to integrate art into everyday life and the urban space. His theories on multiples, industrial reproduction and the social mission of art left their mark on his times. His investigation of forms and the experimental aspect of his practice developed into an interest in how the work of art is perceived and vision-related phenomena : this made him one of the leaders of kinetic art, which went on to become one of the most important artistic trends of the 1960s in Europe and in the world. The exhibition at the Musée d'Ixelles (Belgium), in partnership with the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (Switzerland) and the EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Finland), is the first exhibition in a long time to be exclusively devoted to Vasarely's paintings and highlights the originality of his creation. It comprises more than sixty impressive paintings from 1947 to 1979 which illustrate the two essential components of his oeuvre, his black and white and his color work, and the main compositional groupings and arrangements of forms which he adopted. The visual richness and undeniable beauty of the paintings exhibited reveal what a great painter Vasarely was.

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