Marrakesh-based David Bloch Gallery is back with their “Sensitive Eye” program initiated in 2015 and as a nod to the exhibition “The Responsive Eye” organised at the MOMA in 1965.
Sensitive Eye is program is a series of exhibitions with a focus on themes dear to the gallery, ranging from optical art to geometric abstraction.
For this end of the year, David Bloch Gallery, renews the series with an amazing duo show that promotes the dialogue between two artists whose encounter is an opportunity to approach or disrupt each others artistic process.
The new Sensitive Eye exhibition consists of a series of works by Arthur Dorval and LX One, both artists engaged in the creation of optical art and geometric abstraction that actively engage the viewer.
This year’s cycle will end in December with the fifth personal exhibition of Sébastien Preschoux.
Sensitive Eye runs through October 15 at the gallery located on Rue des Vieux Marrakechis, Marrakesh 40000, Morocco.
Arthur Dorval (born in 1987) lives and works in Lisbon.
Dorval thinks of his painting as a colourful vibration. Fascinated by geometric abstraction, his balance and the power of form, he imposes a singular language through colour. Impregnated by the world of art since his childhood, Arthur Dorval feeds very early a deep fascination for abstract painting. After devoting his studies to illustration and design, he concentrates his taste for the model and his passion for colour towards a pictorial reinvention of the geometric image.
Since his debut in 2010, he has been developing a technique that skilfully mixes colour schemes and forms, in a principle of construction and balance driven by attention to detail and perfection. Comparable to “painted sculptures”, his geometric Eclosions give life to vibrating compositions of sensitivity and energy, where the open and closed fundamental forms join together in new volumes, carried by a work of colours and transparency freeing an unpublished architecture, credible or not. A modern vision of geometric art, Arthur Dorval’s Eclosions also resonate with a futuristic imprint. They place the artist among the most promising talents of the art built.
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LX ONE (born in 1979 in Strasbourg) is a French artist based on the Basque coast near Biarritz.
LX ONE explores the pixel, the smallest unit, as a means of searching the base of the form, the skeletons of colours.
He works on the melody of geometry: the sound of forms, a system of tensions in free space, which responds to architecture, urbanism and design. Inspired by Piet Mondrian and Vasarely, LX ONE depicts only the absolutes of life: vertical and horizontal lines.
In keeping with the tradition of graffiti, it gives us a plastic three-dimensional illusion that attracts the eye through its cellular structures, axonometric cubes, unstoppable volumes and the ambiguity of the form itself.
The works of LX ONE are geometric and minimalist. They appear isometric and sometimes even pixelated. The artist plays with space, abstract forms, colors and materials. By manipulating perspectives and perception, he leads the viewer into his work, made of volumes, shapes and shadows and lights.
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