"I call everything that eases real life by uplifting us art."
Amédée Ozenfant was a French artist born in 1886 and died in 1966. He was a pioneer of the modern movement and co-founder of Purism, which he developed through the journal L'Esprit Nouveau between 1920 and 1925. Initially a Cubist artist (close to Picasso, Matisse, and André Lhote), he gradually aligned himself with Purism, which emerged after World War I. His art was forever marked by a significant encounter—with Le Corbusier.
Ozenfant’s work demonstrates a renewal of formal language aimed at universality. From this idea emerge powerful visual works featuring omnipresent geometric forms. Despite the rigor of his compositions, his works emanate a sensitivity unlike any other art of the time, elevating the viewer toward a poetic and abstract world.
