François Morellet, born in 1926 in Cholet, is one of the major figures of post-war geometric abstraction and a forerunner of minimal art.
Since 1952, he develops works based on simple systems, introducing random, with the aim of restricting at the most subjectivity and the choices of the artist.
Using various techniques, painting, sculpture or neon tubes, Morellet also designs scale works on architecture.
The result is one kind of art made with most restricted means and often of a joyful lightness, expressed with a sense of humour by the artist: from the «Défigurations» to the «Désintégration architecturales», to the stained-glass windows work settled in one staircase of Le Louvre museum, entitled «L‘Esprit d‘escalier».
Morellet‘s works are given to be seen as the result of an art thought out like the rules of the game.

Virginie Delcourt

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