Axo-Fon 1973

Victor Vasarely made this mind-bending composition with paint and hard edges, creating a world that's both flat and bursting with optical illusions. Look at how Vasarely lays down color, block by block. It’s like he's building something, but with pure sensation. The surface is super smooth, almost machine-made, erasing any trace of the artist's hand. But don’t let that fool you, there’s a real feeling in the way he makes you question what's up and what's down. Check out the way he shades the grid of pinks, how the squares seem to push out and pull back depending on how you look at it. It’s like a game of visual hide-and-seek. And that’s what Vasarely is all about: turning seeing into an active, playful event. You could say he owes a debt to Josef Albers and the Bauhaus school, but Vasarely takes it somewhere else entirely.