Before you enter the other room, a high-ceiling space, you will see a small mobile. ‘Mobile in colours number 1’, made this year, prepares you for ‘Colour mobile’ (2019), a 4-meter-high piece, inside the room. The latter brings small, coloured shapes into a tridimensional and (slowly) moving object (see Photos 2 and 3).

Also in this room, you will meet large-scale canvases. With dark backgrounds, they play with movement, geometric shapes and colours, all made by tiny paint dots. In fact, they seem to depict things somewhere out in the cosmos.

Finally, on the first floor, there are two rooms. In the open and bright wooden floor room, you will see five large-scale paintings—most of them are recreations of works made in the 1970s (see Photo 4). In the other room, a small, dark one, there are some self-moving artworks. Most of them were originally created in the 1960s. One must think how groundbreaking it was to have moving works in those days.

Since 1959, the artist recurs to only 14 colours, from hot ones such as red and orange to cold ones such as blue and purple.

In every work of this show, it is clear that Julio Le Parc creates complexity from simple elements. In his works, one can see volume, movement, and light. But all of this is produced with a few colours and some basic elements (such as paint, plastic, canvas, led lamps). Yet, the artist reaches complexity.

If you want to visit this show with us at London Art Walk, we can also take you to nearby places. There are many walking distance art museums or institutions in the surrounding area. Examples are Mube, Eva Klabin House, and Zalszupin House, a place that promotes encounters of art and design at a house designed by the sake name architect. Come walk with us.