Join Arnauld Pierre for the launch of his new book Magic moirés. Gerald Oster ou l’art des moirages from Éditions Macula on Saturday, 14 September at 5pm at the gallery.
Here's a book of a genre rarely practiced, that of the monographic essay applied to a particular family of abstract forms: the moiré, which enjoyed considerable vogue in the 1960s in the context of optical and kinetic art. They are also to be found in the beginnings of computer art and in the productions of the psychedelic counter-culture. Arnauld Pierre's essay examines the various manifestations of the phenomenon, tracing the process that saw moirages move from a scholarly scientific and artistic culture to its forms of appropriation by popular culture. He rediscovers the role played by a somewhat whimsical artist-scientist, Gerald Oster, self-proclaimed "Father of the Moiré", whose fame was as sudden as it was short-lived.
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