François Morellet: FOCUS

The S.M.A.K.’s ‘Focus’ exhibitions are compiled around a single work or group of works from the museum’s permanent collection. They are then encircled by works from other museums and private collections in Belgium and abroad.

Over the last 50 years, François Morellet (France, 1926) has built up a very extensive and extremely consistent body of work. He uses a geometric idiom of lines, squares and triangles which he combines into elementary compositions by means of a controlled creative process following pre-set principles. This results in neutral, universal images in which his personal and subjective choices are reduced to the absolute minimum.

The S.M.A.K. exhibition is a retrospective of his work, with a special focus on the 1970s.

François Morellet
FOCUS