Victor Vasarely – Mindoro II at a Paris Museum

5 October 2017 · Paris

Mindoro II, painted between 1954 and 1958, fills the wall with interlocking black-and-white geometric forms that push hard against each other without ever resolving into stillness. Vasarely built the composition from angular, stepped shapes — blocks that read as architectural one moment and pure graphic abstraction the next. The wall label to the right names what the eye already suspects: this is op art working at full force, decades before the term became routine.