Currently on at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France is a major retrospective of the work of Julio le Parc.

The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and installations from the Argentinian-born artist from the 1950s to the present day.  This is the largest exhibition in France for Le Parc’s work since the 1980s (NB – Le Parc was expelled from France in May 1968, after participating in the Atelier Populaire and its protests against major institutions but now lives and works in Cachan, Paris).

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Julio le Parc

Julio le Parc is a very important figure in the development of Op Art.  He was a founding member of G.R.A.V. (English version is the Visual Art Research Group) which was a pre-cursor to kinetic and Op Art.  Born in 1928, Julio is now 84 and is still as relevant today as he was in the late 1950s and 1960s.

The exhibition takes up over 2,000 square metres of space in the Palais de Tokyo and runs from February 27 to May 13, 2013.  Entrance to the Palais de Tokyo is €10 (concessions pay less).  The Palais is open from 12 noon to 12 midnight every day except Tuesday.

PALAIS DE TOKYO
13, avenue du Président Wilson,
75 116 Paris

The annual Kinetica Art Fair 2013 is currently underway at Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NE1 5LS.  Amongst other artists, the exhibition will feature some of the works of Italian Op Artists Alberto Biassi and Paolo Scirpa.  They are to be found on stand no.2 and are represented by maab studio d’arte.

The Kinetica Art Fair is only on for the next couple of days (runs 28th February 2013 to 3rd March 2013) so you will need to be quick.

Kinetica Art Fair

“Kinetica Art Fair, one of London’s annual landmark art exhibitions and a permanent fixture in the Art Fair calendar, brings together galleries, art organisations and curatorial groups from around the world who focus on kinetic, electronic, robotic, sound, light, time-based and multi-disciplinary new media art, science and technology.

For 2013 Kinetica is hosting the work of over 40 galleries and art organisations nationally and internationally, with representatives from UK, France, Russia, USA, Poland, Holland, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Indonesia and Japan, collectively showing over 400 works of art.”

As the Daily Telegraph has said of a previous exhibition: “If you can’t find something to excite you at Kinetica you probably don’t have a pulse“

The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa is currently hosting a new Op Art and Kinetic Art exhibition – “Vibrations” – featuring 23 paintings drawn from the Center’s permanent collection.  On display are works by Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam, Jesús Rafael Soto, Frank Stella and Marcel Duchamp (amongst others).

The exhibition runs from January 22nd 2013 until May 12th 2013.  Vibrations has been organized by Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings at the center.

Bill Komodore – Circe

Carlos Cruz-Diaz – Couleur Additive

Marcel Duchamp

Entrance to the exhibition is free.  Hours are:

Monday – closed

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 11 am — 4 pm

Thursday: 11 am — 9 pm

Saturday: 10 am — 4 pm

Sunday: Noon — 4 pm

Des Moines Art Center,

4700 Grand Avenue

Des Moines, IA 50312-2099

The Exhibition Press release is available here

UPDATE: This exhibition has been extended by popular demand. It has also now moved to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1000 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73117 and will run until April 2014. Thanks to Theresa Hultberg for the information.

A fantastic new free-to-enter exhibition – “Into the void” – is being hosted by the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of art within the Oklahoma University Campus, in Oklahoma, USA.

The exhibition is ‘student curated’ (by students from the Oklahoma University School of Art and Art History) and features works from the Fred Jones Junior Museum of Art’s collection.  Artists on display include Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely and Richard Anuskiewicz.

Titan C – Victor Vasarely

The exhibition opens to the public on the 9th February 2013 and runs through until the 28th July 2013.

You can find out more about the exhibition here

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
555 Elm Avenue
Norman, OK 73019-3003

Monday:  Closed
Tuesday:  10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday:  10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday:  10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday:  10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday:  10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday:  1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Entrance is FREE for everybody.

The exhibition features a great promotional logo design by Laura Fortner.

Into the void – Laura Fortner

Bridget Riley was recently awarded the Sikkens Prize and in honour of her win the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague, Netherlands is putting on an exhibition of her work.

Riley will create a special mural for the exhibition that will be almost 25m long.  In addition to the new work, a further room will house a selection of her early work through to some of her most recent pieces.

Entrance to the Gemeentemuseum is €13.50 and the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm.  The exhibition will run until the 1st June 2013.

GEMEENTEMUSEUM DEN HAAG

Stadhouderslaan 41

2517 HV Den Haag

The Netherlands