Francesca Pola (red.)
Walter Leblanc
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Little is known about Walter Leblanc, one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-twentieth century. ‘Walter Leblanc’ includes significant unpublished materials, which provide insight not only into the art of Leblanc, but also into the extraordinary and creative ZERO artist movement he was connected to and in close dialogue with starting in the 1950s.
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