#vasarely

Victor Vasarely (Hungarian-French, 1906-1997)

Capella, 1970

'Claustras'

Terra Cotta Tiles Designed by Pierre Culot in 1964⁠,

From 1964 to 1970, Pierre Culot collaborated with various architects in creating ceramic claustras destined for both private and public places. To do so the artist developed a vocabulary using the square and the rectangle as the basic elements. Inside these he integrated one or several geometric shapes.

Pierre Culot borrowed this repertoire from abstraction, drawing inspiration partly from a plastic alphabet formulated by the painter Vasarely in 1959. The artist liked to play on the depth or orientation of these shapes to modulate the light.