Yves Gaucher

Signals #2, 1966

Works

Portrait

Gaucher’s colours vary from intense to subliminal but with a transcendent quality comparable to Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. A significant place is also given by Gaucher to visual rhythm. He leads the viewer’s eye visually, not randomly. Op Art techniques, such as those found in the work of Bridgit Riley, Guido Molinari and Larry Poons, aid and abet, but while those artists’ achievement is typically secular, Gaucher strives for a world of spiritual transcendence…