Sonka 1956 - 1989

Victor Vasarely made Sonka, with graphic shapes of solid green and brown floating on a yellow field. I can imagine Vasarely planning this composition, thinking about space and colour and how they vibrate together. These shapes, the trapezoids and circles, aren’t quite stable, and there's something kinda funky happening, where the flat picture plane feels like it's both receding and coming forward all at once. I love the circle cut in half by horizontal stripes; it suggests movement, a ball spinning in space. And the yellow peeking from behind gives the whole thing a lift, a kind of electric charge. This feels so connected to other artists playing with similar ideas, like Josef Albers’ colour studies, where a simple shape can become a whole world of perception. It's like one big conversation across time, with each artist adding their own voice. And for us, the viewers, it's an open invitation to bring our own interpretations, our own feelings, to the mix.