"To limit my sensitivity as an ‘artist’, I removed the composition, removed all interest in the performance, and rigorously applied simple and obvious systems that can develop either through chance or through the participation of the spectator."
A major figure in geometric abstraction in the second half of the twentieth century, François Morellet seeks to deprive his works of individual subjectivity from the 1940s. Art is freed from all romanticism, and, in doing so, Morellet adopts a very stripped-down geometric language, composed of simple shapes (lines, squares) in a limited number of colors in elementary two-dimensional compositions. He establishes the different systems of arrangement of forms that he uses (superposition, fragmentation, juxtaposition, interferences) on the basis of his original framework. The system he has put in place to create his paintings, installations, or environments is based on a playful mixture of elementary mathematical rules and random decisions. Its systems are regulated by a "very concise rule of the game which precedes the work and precisely determines its development and therefore its execution" with minimal subjective intervention.