Mouvement III, Paris, Galerie Denise René, 1955, sheet of yellow paper folded in 4, (24.5 x 16.5 cm. Folded)

Author(s): Alexander Calder Arne Jacobsen Jean Tinguely Jesus Rafael Soto Marcel Duchamp Pol Bury Victor Vasarely Yaacov Agam

Associated movement: Kinetic Art

Language : French

Medium : Leaflet|Book (Exhibition catalogue)

Original edition of the manifesto: Mouvement III, Paris, Galerie Denise René, 1955, sheet of yellow paper folded in 4, (24.5 x 16.5 cm. Folded)

Where can we find this manifesto? Le Cinétisme, Mouvement réel – Mouvement suggéré 1955-1984, exhibition catalogue, Meymac : centre d'art contemporain, 1984, pp. 4-5. Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011.

Link(s) to the manifesto: https://basemanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/victor-vasarely-notes-pour-un-manifeste-le.html-charsetutf-8

Which critic recognizes the work as a manifesto ? or: Typical characteristics of a manifesto

Editorial comments: Notes pour un manifeste" was originally conceived by Vasarely, who had naturalised in France, with a view to a group exhibition entitled "Le Mouvement", which opened on 6 April 1955 (and ran until the 30th) at the Denise René gallery. Albers, Bury, Duchamp, Soto, Tinguely, Vasarely, Calder and Jacobsen: the names of the nine artists exhibited appear on the frontispiece of the booklet that serves as the catalogue, inside which is also reproduced Tinguely's text, which will go down in history as the "Manifesto of Kinetic Art" or the "Yellow Manifesto", depending on the colour of the paper.