Le Mouvement Is First Post-War Kinetic Exhibition

The April 1955 exhibition at the Galerie Denise René, in which Vasarely was central, launched both Op and Kinetic Art, while inspiring the New Tendencies group GRAV. It’s thus a pivotal moment in the history of generative art. Le Mouvement included Yaacov Agam, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Jacobsen, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely and Victor Vasarely. The exhibition corresponded to the principles laid out in his “Yellow Manifesto.” An intense period of experimentation in media and production choices followed the exhibition. The manifesto and this exhibition helped lay the groundwork for both electronic art and the digitization of generative art.