Vasarely foundation

The Fondation Vasarely was set up in 1976 by Victor Vasarely, artist contemporary free-Hungarian. By creating this foundation Victor Vasarely wanted to show that it was possible to integrate art into architecture.

To the end of the lifetime of the artist, the fights for the control of the Foundation between the family members lead to the entry on the lists of a " third larron" who will confer on the Foundation a renewal notoriety, but in the legal field.

An art for all

Testifying to a reflection on art and the glance before gardist that Victor Vasarely related to the role of the artist at the 20th century, the Foundation was created to popularize art without cultural or social discriminations: an art for all; accessible to all.

Of architecture avant-gardist, the Foundation is thought as a gigantic sculpture lumino-kinetics where optical animations of the frontage precede the kinetic plays of the 42 monumental integrations which one discovers inside the building. Most known work of Victor Vasarely is presented to the Foundation in the form of monumental works making it possible to the visitor to appreciate the exceptional result to which Vasarely brings geometrical abstract painting under the name of Kinetic art.

Vasarely was one of the promoters of this movement, like his/her son Yvaral, plastics technician and graphic designer. The Foundation presents their works, as those of contemporary artists who work on the interactions between work and the public in temporary exhibitions of quality.

Cinetism

The spectator makes the experiment of the cinetism, it tries out works physically.

The visitor then becomes actor, his glance is truly collected by the diversity of the optical effects which merge with the singular architecture of the rooms.

The Foundation proposes to you to be an actor of the play of the geometrical forms, the colors, the movement and the diversity of the optical effects.

History

Claire and Victor Vasarely entirely equipped and financed this institution with nonlucrative goal recognized public utility in 1971, with considerable inalienable donations during more than twenty five years within the framework of the French legislation on the foundations, legislation very demanding.

The Vasarely Foundation is managed of 1981 to 1993 by the Université of right, saving and sciences in Aix-Marseilles III, today Université Paul Cézanne.

The November 27th 1990, date of the death of Claire Vasarely, wife of Victor Vasarely, marks the beginning long and painful legal procedure which finishes in December 2005 by the judgment of the Senior Charles Debbasch, former president of the University of Aix-Marseilles III, before the Court of appeal.

Michele-Catherine Taburno-Vasarely, daughter-in-law of the founders, who leads the interests of inheritance Vasarely (Andre and Jean-Pierre), former president of the Foundation of 1995 to 1997, take possession in 1997, the year of the death of Victor Vasarely, of almost 500 inalienable original works of the didactic Museum of Gordes (closed definitively since 1996), of 798 inalienable studies on the Art and the City of the architectonic Center of Aix-en-Provence and approximately 18.000 transferable multiples. Inalienable in the past works are expatriates and sold.

The Vasarely succession is debtor fiscally of several million euros and almost lost all its funds and collections.

In 2006, year of the centenary of the birth of Victor Vasarely and thirtieth birthday of the inauguration of the architectonic Center of Aix-en-Provence, association for defense and the promotion of the work of Vasarely, Internet site http://www.vasarely.net, chaired by Pierre Vasarely, single grandson and legatee of Victor Vasarely, fights so that the Vasarely Foundation recovers its collections.

External bond

Site of the Foundation Vasarely

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