Recherches Visuelles / Analyses Numériques\u003Cbr />Hôtel de Ville de Paris, 1980\u003C/p>","1980",[363],{"id":364,"url":365,"webp200":366,"webp400":367,"webp800":368,"webp1200":369,"webp1800":370,"webp2400":371,"webp3200":372,"heroLandscape":373,"heroPortrait":374,"alt":12,"title":375,"width":376,"height":377,"caption":378,"__typename":273},"7542","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.png","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp200/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp400/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp800/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1200/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1800/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp2400/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp3200/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1920x1080_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1080x1920_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7542/Recherches-visuelles-Analyses-numeriques-1980_2025-05-20-160609_rtop.webp","Recherches visuelles Analyses numériques, 1980",1728,1720,"\u003Cp>Recherches visuelles Analyses numériques, 1980\u003C/p>",{"title":380,"description":381,"textAuthor":12,"year":382,"source":12,"image":383,"index":400},"The pleasure of rigor or the rigor of pleasure?","\u003Cp>YVARAL, like VASARELY, and like all artists of great influence, refuses the convenience of varied attempts with no end in sight: his work in the studio consists first and foremost in systematically exhausting this field of possibilities. In a retrospective, in line with the ever-widening recognition of his eminent position in the Optical Art movement, the permanence of which we noted earlier, we see an increasingly deliberate rigor that places YVARAL in the same league as MONDRIAN or Max BILL. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>YVARAL's “digitization” work introduces a new notion into art: the concept of the frame, i.e., the elementary mesh of reality, which he brings to our attention - whereas photographers and painters were so careful to conceal the very existence of this mesh. Practicing pouncing pattern on a Mona Lisa to get the hang of it, observing Notre Dame, Salvador DALI or a pretty woman, YVARAL, inspired by the synthesis of forms constructed by the computer, develops as a theme the idea, with its Leibnizian purity, that the “world” is always made up of simple elements, assembled according to certain rules that generate forms. In doing so, he places himself as a creator at the crossroads between synthesis and analysis of reality - the very position of artistic vision. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Dividing Salvador DALI into as many small triangles as necessary to ensure that he is not a mere coincidence of simple elements, then breaking down the blonde femininity, so close to him, into as many squares as are sufficient to ensure her radiance, is an almost symbolic application of Geometry to the World, showing that if the whole world is always reducible to a grid, it is only by an effort of our mind and eye that we can get past it. It means making the visible more visible by reducing the evidence of the visible, requiring the eye to make this perceptive effort, demanding from the viewer a willingness to interpret, and thereby teaching us to see. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>YVARAL has long been impressed by crystallographic repetition. To lay meshes of atoms at the end of each other \u003Ci>- usque ad infinitum -\u003C/i> is to grasp, in its essence, a certain vertigo of infinity. A whole recent part of his work is built on this idea, expressed in the modern theory of form in the concept of series, which it borrows from mathematics. When you see a long string of columns, each repeating the previous one in a visibly decreasing order, you grasp a whole set of concepts: the idea of change in this repetition, the idea of convergence, and, behind this, the idea of infinity. \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Abraham Moles, 1985\u003Cbr />Retrospective Yvaral, Mona-Lisa Synthétisée\u003Cbr />Pavillon des Arts, Paris\u003C/p>","1985",[384],{"id":385,"url":386,"webp200":387,"webp400":388,"webp800":389,"webp1200":390,"webp1800":391,"webp2400":392,"webp3200":393,"heroLandscape":394,"heroPortrait":395,"alt":12,"title":396,"width":397,"height":398,"caption":399,"__typename":273},"7536","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/Mona-Lisa-synth%C3%A9tis%C3%A9e-1985.png","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp200/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp400/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp800/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1200/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1800/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp2400/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp3200/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1920x1080_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1080x1920_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7536/Mona-Lisa-synthétisée-1985.webp","Mona Lisa synthétisée, 1985",1142,1458,"\u003Cp>Mona Lisa synthétisée, 1985\u003C/p>",2,{"title":402,"description":403,"textAuthor":12,"year":404,"source":12,"image":405,"index":422},"Yvaral or the mesh of modernity","\u003Cp>Not so long ago, to “read” the light intensity of an image, we had to “collect” up to 2,400 values on a luxmeter and copy them down. Today, software cuts the image into units and transcribes them, and a video camera records the sequences in a matter of seconds. For Yvaral, digitization has become a creative tool, enabling him to invent new forms, adopt unheard-of geometries and modify polychromes as well as three-dimensional representations.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Digitized images open up a whole new realm of possibilities. The exaltation of the frame that Yvaral celebrates - small, magnified dots of reality - brings us back to the atom of beauty and vital force. He forces us to rethink our vision, transposing the image from a geometric alphabet and establishing another scale of values by playing on the shadows cast by shapes. The now-classic beauty of the Mona Lisa is not called into question, but updated by today's intelligence, by an awareness that has become autonomous, by the realization of new algorithms.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>André Parinaud\u003C/p>","1986",[406],{"id":407,"url":408,"webp200":409,"webp400":410,"webp800":411,"webp1200":412,"webp1800":413,"webp2400":414,"webp3200":415,"heroLandscape":416,"heroPortrait":417,"alt":12,"title":418,"width":419,"height":420,"caption":421,"__typename":273},"7529","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/Yvaral-1990.jpg","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp200/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp400/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp800/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1200/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1800/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp2400/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp3200/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1920x1080_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1080x1920_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7529/Yvaral-1990.webp","Yvaral, 1990",1245,1869,"\u003Cp>Yvaral, 1990\u003C/p>",3,{"title":424,"description":425,"textAuthor":12,"year":426,"source":12,"image":427,"index":444},"Vasarely on Yvaral","\u003Cp>As I delved deeper into Yvaral's meditation on his work, I found myself dazzled by the MICROCOSMOS... the masterly path of UNDULATORY IDEAS, whose FORMS and COLORS are no longer particles on a human scale, but on the scale of ATOMS, PROTON, NEUTRON, ELECTRON, ION, etc...\u003C/p>\u003Cp>When you look at them, from near or far, they don't tell you anything, but then, all of a sudden, light flashes out, the image appears, only to disappear and reappear... and form new, unknown and spectacular creations.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Electronics undoubtedly plays a role in his research and creations, but so does FIGURATION, which is reborn after centuries of confusion, turns into a broth, then into abstraction, and calls out loud for fundamental changes in the plastic arts.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Our two researches and their results, while as close as possible brothers and sisters, are at a distance of billions of light years, and I won't hide from you that I'm filled with admiration for his talent, which represents an extension of my work and my existence.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Victor Vasarely\u003Cbr />February 2nd 1990\u003C/p>","1990",[428],{"id":429,"url":430,"webp200":431,"webp400":432,"webp800":433,"webp1200":434,"webp1800":435,"webp2400":436,"webp3200":437,"heroLandscape":438,"heroPortrait":439,"alt":12,"title":440,"width":441,"height":442,"caption":443,"__typename":273},"7545","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/Yvaral-Vasarely.JPG","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp200/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp400/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp800/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1200/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp1800/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp2400/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_webp3200/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1920x1080_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","https://dev-admin.vasarely.com/uploads/img/_1080x1920_crop_center-center_60_none_ns/7545/Yvaral-Vasarely.webp","Yvaral Vasarely",3264,2448,"\u003Cp>Yvaral Vasarely\u003C/p>",4,{"title":446,"description":447,"textAuthor":12,"year":12,"source":12,"image":448,"index":464},"Otto Hahn","\u003Cp>Mathematics as Fine Arts could be Yvaral's motto. Never leaving anything to chance, he programs his work with the precision of a computer.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>One day, the importance of the Visual Art Research Group\u003Ci> «Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel»\u003C/i>, founded in 1960 by Yvaral and a team of kinetic artists, will be recognized. \u003Ci>GRAV\u003C/i>'s doctrine can be summed up as follows: the artist's role is to develop definable optical effects. This starting point implied a number of consequences. Firstly, the artistic indefinable was eliminated, and the public was confronted with a reality. The artist relinquished his status as an inspiration, and took on the role of an engineer of vision.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>With variations, these ideas can be found in Minimal Art (direct contact with a form), in the work of those who heralded \u003Ci>Supports-Surfaces\u003C/i> and in the production of those who practiced it. The idea of direct contact with a definable reality or phenomenon dominated the years 1965 to 1975. Nor should we forget that the American Minimalists prided themselves on having their sculptures made in factories, without intervening in the production process: in this way, they made it clear that the work could be entirely conceived at the level of the project, and that production was an anonymous act.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>I'd like to reiterate that Yvaral and \u003Ci>GRAV\u003C/i> were already defending this position in their first manifestos in 1960. History will one day do them justice.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Since then, Yvaral has moved on, but has remained faithful to a picture dominated by logic. If he has returned to the image, it is not by turning his back on his original positions. With all naturalistic elements eliminated, the face is analyzed and the major articulations highlighted. Next comes the choice of the frame, and the definition of a color range. The controlled alteration of color produces the effects of light and shadow. Yvaral can play with scales and structures while remaining faithful to the likeness.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>No libido, no confidences. Yvaral is in the tradition of artists who refuse to project their torments onto canvas. In the 20th century, this tradition began with Malevich and Mondrian, and continued with Yves Klein. Emotion does not come from the psychoanalyst's couch, but from the lyricism that attaches to any expression pushed to its highest degree of intensity. 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