Turkiz, from Lapidaire 1968

Victor Vasarely made this print, Turkiz, sometime in the mid-20th century using a screen-printing process. Everything in the piece is precise. These shapes and colours are so carefully calibrated. Vasarely seems to be asking, how little can I do to suggest depth? The way the colours interact is the key. Note the texture of the inks; they are solid, slightly granular. The colours don't blend or bleed; they abut each other cleanly. The red circle in the center square is a punch. It draws your eye, and everything else seems to rotate around it. It makes me think of Josef Albers and his studies of colour relationships. This work is a kind of formal experiment but also, it feels like a game. It’s all about perception and how we see, and art as a conversation that continues across generations. There are no answers, just new ways of seeing.