Christel Sadde, Stabile “Tribute to Victor Vasarely”, 3/8, 2017

Christel Sadde, signed and numbered.

Large square stabile in gilt polished varnished brass composed of a fix cubic base supporting a fix square structure where are hung tree mobile square structures, with decreasing sizes and finishing by a raw cut blue glass pendant.

Signed, dated and numerated on the base “Christel Sadde 2017 – 3/8”.

It takes part from the series “The Standing Mobile XXL Version – Tribute to Victor Vasarely”.

French contemporary work.

Discover in video the work of Christel Sadde here.

Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was a Hungarian plastician, French naturalized, known as the founder of the Optic Art. In 1929, he entered to the Mühely of Budapest, known as the equivalent of the Bauhaus in Hungary, where he was initiated to constructivism and abstract art. He moved to Paris in 1930 and worked for the ad agency Havas and for the printer Draeger as a drawer and a creator. In the 1920’s-1930’s, he developed his plastic researches on line, material effects, shadows, lights and perspective.
The 1950’s marked a turning point in his art because he alternated between colors flattens and geometrical shapes to turn to kinetic art. His « Black and White » period from 1954 to 1960, made him work on graphic studies with researches on lines grids and deformations. In 1955, he exhibited to the Denise René gallery in Paris, where the accent was put on the kinetic art where movement and space were created thanks to the spectator look.
From 1960, colors were integrated in his artwork to create a universal language and a collective art. By combining shapes and colors in different ways thanks to codes and programs, propositions were multiplied where reliefs were in a perpetual transformation. In 1965, he participated to the exhibition « Responsive Eye » at the Modern Art Museum of New York, dedicated to Optic Art. At the end of the 1960’s, his linear work reappeared with the repetition of lines in downward proportions – which remind the stabile of Christel Sadde, which takes up this concept in sculpture.
He created his foundation in 1976 by establishing a contemporary art centre and a research laboratory where artists, architects, ingenious met each other to create a true collective creator work.

Christel Sadde (1968) is a French artist who began her career in graphic design and then developed a passion for Calder. She began to draw mobiles inspired by geometrical abstraction and kinetic art. In 2003, she created her company Volabile following to an order of 50 mobiles by the Sentou Gallery. More recently, she began to create “stabiles”, sculptures on solid base where small mobile were hang. Her artwork is considered as decoration items and also as geometrical, aerial and shiny. Some of her pieces pay tribute to major artists of the 20^thcentury such as Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevitch or François Morellet.

Sources :

https://www.fondationvasarely.org/centre-architectonique/victor-vasarely/