Victor Vasarely is one of the artists in the 20th century who created an original style. Museums and collectors contend for his paintings. The gender based on geometric forms has conquered everyday life via Op fashion designers.

Victor Vasarely was born as Győző Vásárhelyi in Pécs. He attended schools in Budapest. He moved to Paris in 1930 where he lived until his death in 1997. His painting career began in the middle of the forties. Via his art researches, he picked up on forms of nature, as well as constructive elements of architecture, or the fine tiles in the undergrounds of Paris.

One of the most interesting pieces shown at the Vasarely exhibition at the Móra Ferenc Museum is entitled 'Space' that has indeed travelled to space. The first French spaceman, Jean-Loup Chrétien, took the graphic work to a space station on the spaceship Soyuz T-6 in the framework of the Russian-French intercosmos cooperation. Vasarely made the graphic in 1981. After the space travel, Spacemen Chrétien, Vlagyimir Dzsanibekov, and Alekszandr Ivancsenkov all signed the picture. The stamp of UNESCO and the Soyuz T spaceship are also on it.

The owner of the picture received it from Vasarely itself in 1983. 'Space' has been shown several times, from Madrid to New Delhi. This time, it is shown at the Vasarely exhibition at the Móra Ferenc Museum. The owner estimates that the graphic is worth 100.000 dollars.

The father of optic arts, according to lexicons, was born 100 years ago in Pécs. The exact date is not known, nevertheless, art historians believe the year 1908 is correct. The exhibition at the Ferenc Móra Museum presents the most important artworks presently held in Hungary. The Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs and the Museum of Fine Arts also show exotic pieces from the Csepei Collection which the master himself gave to the collector.

Beside the characteristic Vasarely pictures, we also show carpets, lithographs and serigraphs by him. Three of the artworks represent three important stages of the career of Vasarey: a Biadan (1959), a Tuz (1966-70) and Cheyt-Pyr (1971).

The Ferenc Móra Museum endeavoured to organize the display as they thought that it is an honour to hold the display at the Ferenc Móra Museum in 2008. This is the first Vasarely exhibition in Szeged, Csongrád County so those interested in art can now see these artworks in our region.