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BELGIUM / Gent: Henri Chotteau legacy: François Morellet
by Modem
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until Sunday January 11 2015

S.M.A.K.
T : +32 (0)9 240 76 01
Citadelpark
9000 Gent
Belgium



In 2012 the S.M.A.K. received a generous bequest from the estate of the Brussels collector Henri Chotteau (1947-2012). It consisted almost entirely of important works by the French artist François Morellet (1926, Cholet).

Morellet’s oeuvre has clear links with the Op Art and Kinetic Art of the 1960s. His geometric compositions of lines, squares and triangles arise out of the systematic application of predetermined rules. He also allows chance to play a part in this controlled process of creation. This results in neutral, universal images from which subjective choices are as far as possible excluded.

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