Accession Code: wu0558 Title: Silver on Black Date completed: Medium: Prints Material: Screenprint Height (mm): 377 Width (mm): 371 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed Location Name: Framers Location Description: Location Floor:

© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2021

The 'Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel' which Morellet co-founded in Paris in 1960 was engaged in kinetic and optical art, a class of geometrical abstraction based on the exploitation of perceptual ambiguities and other optical devices to cause illusions of movement and visual irritation. To activate vision a maximum of geometrical clarity and machine-like precision is sought. In this screenprint the strong contrast between the light foreground and the dark background evokes the intense spatial quality of the work, whilst the regular pattern of the filigree, lace-like silver grid seems to flicker, to disappear and reappear.