Almost everyone is familiar with Victor Vasarely’s art. His works, which create optical illusions, live on not only on museum walls: they appear on postcards, design objects, and book covers, and can also be found adorning the facades of buildings in cities around the world.
To mark the 120th anniversary of the world-famous artist’s birth, starting May 29, CODE will bring his works closer to you than you’ve ever experienced before.
Vasarely’s art steps out of the frame and comes to life all around you.
Welcome to the world of Op Art!
This space is not static. It pulses. It undulates. It reacts to you.
This is precisely the essence of Op Art, or optical art: it plays with our senses. The paintings seem not to be static surfaces, but living, breathing systems. It is not reality that changes, but the way we perceive it.
Lake Balaton, Zebra Crossings, and Mathematics
Vasarely’s life story traces a unique path. Would you have thought that he drew his inspiration from nature—indeed, from the very waves of Lake Balaton? He later became world-famous in Paris, where the convergence of modern art and geometry gave his work a whole new direction.
He did not seek to copy nature, but rather to explore the systems underlying it: the patterns, proportions, rhythms, and repetitions. This is how his iconic works came to be; in creating them—long before the digital age, as a forerunner of computer graphics—he transformed the rules of geometry into art and optical vibrancy with mathematical precision.
The walls melt away,
the forms transform,
the colors shift,
and the space comes to life.
Step inside and become part of it!
Starting May 29 at CODE!
More information here.
CODE – Centre of Digital Experiences
Veszprém, Dózsa György utca 2, Magyarország
