ADOLF LUTHER, VICTOR VASARELY

Adolf Luther (1912–1990) is renowned for his exploration of light and space, using lenses and mirrors to produce reflective boxes where luminosity and transparency become active components of the artwork. In using reflections, his serial arrangements give the environment back as the work’s image, catching light, color, and space in its own lenses. From the outside world, shifting patterns appear on the curved mirrors of the works from the viewer’s presence and movement - a formation of ephemeral illusions - that thus become part of the inner world.

Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), a pioneer of the Op Art movement, employed geometric abstraction and vibrant color schemes to construct intricate visual systems, often described as optical illusions. Through the strategic modulation of form, color and contrast, Vasarely’s compositions seem to pulse and warp, creating augmentations that target our perception of depth and dimension. Figure and ground, black and white, and circles and squares are treated like opposite ends that coalesce, constructing images through the relationships in these dichotomies.

In the works of Luther and Vasarely, ‘serial formations’ transcend simple sequences of repetition, evolving into immersive fields of energy and rhythm. The exhibition invites viewers to engage with these structured yet fluid visual languages, to observe how pattern and variation are influenced by (inside and outside) perspective, and to experience the surprising vitality that emerges from disciplined form.

In this exhibition of works by Adolf Luther and Victor Vasarely, the meeting of reflection, geometry, light, order and illusion is posed in these optically subversive works that are dynamic even in their stringent alignment to grids, fields, nets, and rigid materials. Serial Formations is a celebration of vision itself — a space where works exist beyond the frame and structure can be the catalyst for exploration.