He passed away on 10 May 2016, but none of his creations, imbued with both art and mathematics, will ever be forgotten. Born in 1926 in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), he pursued his artistic activity alongside running the family business until 1975. Like many abstract painters, he went through a brief figurative period, but as early as 1950 moved toward abstraction. Following the example of Piet Mondrian, his art found expression in simple geometric shapes, elementary polygons, lines, and parallel grids. Between 1961 and 1968, he and a few other artists founded GRAV (Groupe de recherche d'art visuel), and from 1963 onward began creating his arrangements of neon tubes. He went on to create monumental works, constantly seeking to draw on ideas from geometry, often making direct allusions to the underlying mathematical concepts.
Beaming π
When he came up with the idea of arranging wooden fences in a park at angles derived at random from the decimal digits of π, he titled the installation Beaming π ("radiant π").
