Julio Le Parc, Hermès
Hermès Éditeur launches it’s fourth ‘art on silk’ edition with designs by Julio Le Parc – a major player kinetic and optical art. A veritable hymn, his proposition, Variations autour de La Longue Marche, resulted in 10 series of six silk scarves. The studies in question reflect an interest in colour that has marked the artist’s career ever since 1959. They represent the core of his work, the source of future developments and, in particular, the historical source of Variations autour de La Longue Marche. Le Parc divided sixty pieces into two categories: iterations that explore fourteen prismatic colours, and other’s that elaborate from in the three non-colours. The web of lines is no longer developed solely on a white ground, but also on coloured monochrome grounds: yellow, green, blue, two hues of red, orange or shades of greys in the various series. As the artist makes clear, this work is a metaphor that can apply to many different fields. It perfectly embodies the artist’s cyclical creative mode, but also sums up the long path of his artistic career.
Here’s a video to have an idea of the fourth edition:
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