Executed in 1956. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Pierre
Vasarely, president of the Fondation Vasarely, dated January 30, 2016 and will also be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné, compiled by the Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence.

Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely is widely considered to be the father of the Optical Art movement. Optical Art, or “Op Art” for short, was an abstract art movement that utilized optical illusions and began in the early to mid-20th century. Trained as a medical professional, Vasarely abandoned medicine to study at the art and design school Műhely in Budapest, which adopted many Bauhaus theories and focused on graphic arts. Vasarely’s developments in Op Art were extremely influential both culturally and artistically. In 1969, David Bowie included a work by Vasarely on the cover of his second album.

In UZOK 2, Vasarely employed his iconic method unité plastique in which he applied recurrent geometric shapes, described as “units,” within his works. He achieved this by cutting out shapes from the paper and applying them elsewhere to suggest the presence of a foreground and background, creating a three-dimensional space. This is countered by his intentional use of flat colors to create a visual paradox.