Horizontales, verticales, seules : Art concret

Edition: French

The book Horizontales, verticales, seules: Art concret (Horizontal, Vertical, Alone: Concrete Art) was produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Musée Tavet-Delacour in Pontoise from October 28, 2006, to January 28, 2007.

Edited by Christophe Duvivier, this book explores concrete art through a selection of works by 55 major artists, such as Aurélie Nemours, Vera Molnar, François Morellet, and Léo Breuer, highlighting constructions based on systems of vertical and horizontal subdivisions. The catalog includes analytical texts, a detailed bibliography (pages 90 to 94), and is richly illustrated in color. It offers a reflection on the radicalization of contemporary art since the 1930s, in connection with the concrete art manifesto published by Theo van Doesburg, and demonstrates how this rigorous aesthetic has allowed artists a new form of creative freedom.