Julio Le Parc 1959 at The Met Breuer

The Met Breuer, the modern and contemporary art venue of the Metropolitan Museum of New York, is presenting Julio Le Parc 1959 the first solo exhibition in a New York Museum. Le Parc decided to donate 24 works to the Met Collection, in his words: "It seemed to me, the same as my children, that the Met Breuer could be a place where my works could be very well conserved, cared for, kept, and perhaps they could serve as the starting elements of my work in the future." Simultaneously is a celebration of the artist's 90th birthday. The exhibition will be on view until February 24, including more than 50 works; for most of them it is the first time that they are presented. The gouaches represent one of the most prolific and transformative years in the artist's work. At the same time the Met Breuer is having an exhibition by Lucio Fontana; Le Parc was his student in the 1940s. In 1958, Le Parc moved to París, where his encounter with Op artists like Victor Vasarely influenced his work and he started enquiring about color, abstraction and forms, as in the gouaches shown in this exhibition. In the 1960s Le Parc became one of the pioneers of kinetic art.