Victor Vasarely Retrospective at Städel Museum Frankfurt

The Städel Museum in Frankfurt is hosting a major retrospective of Victor Vasarely, co-founder of Op Art, featuring over 100 key works spanning his six-decade career. The exhibition, titled 'Victor Vasarely. In the Labyrinth of Modernism,' includes 120 works from European and US collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Fondazione Michele Vasarely. A highlight is a dining room originally designed for the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt in the early 1970s by Vasarely and his son Yvaral, dismantled specifically for the show. The room features 582 round plastic discs covered in color and aluminum arranged in symmetrical rows in yellow, gold, gray, and silver. The Bundesbank acquired the building 46 years ago, and the space was used for special guests and press events. Iris Cramer, curator of the Bundesbank art collection, expressed delight at making the work accessible. The exhibition runs until January 13, 2019.