Tate Modern presents Julio Le Parc’s ‘Light. Colour. Action.’

Tate Modern is presenting ‘Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.’, a focused display of installations, light sculptures and geometric paintings by the Argentine artist. The exhibition is presented in the George Economou Gallery, according to a Tate newsletter issued on 15 August 2026.

The display is described as an immersive and interactive encounter with Le Parc’s work. Tate’s announcement invites visitors to move through a “playful world” in which installations, light sculptures and geometric paintings appear to change in response to movement through the galleries. The description places the visitor’s physical experience at the centre of the presentation, emphasising works that “spring to life with every step you take”.

The exhibition brings together several strands of Le Parc’s practice, linking constructed environments and optical effects with the ordered visual language of geometric painting. Tate’s materials do not provide a full checklist or state the number of works included, but identify the presentation as a concentrated look at installations, light-based sculpture and paintings shaped by geometry.

A work specifically identified in the newsletter is ‘Instability 1959–1991’, lent by the Atelier Le Parc. The work’s date range points to a practice developed across several decades, while its inclusion alongside light sculptures and installations reflects the exhibition’s emphasis on movement, perception and changing visual effects. Tate’s credit line records the work as lent by the Atelier Le Parc and includes 2026 copyright information for ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London.

‘Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.’ forms part of Tate Modern’s summer exhibition programme, which the newsletter presents alongside displays devoted to Frida Kahlo, Tracey Emin and Ana Mendieta. Those projects remain separate from the Le Parc presentation: ‘Frida: The Making of an Icon’ is organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in collaboration with Tate Modern; ‘Tracey Emin: A Second Life’ is presented in the Eyal Ofer Galleries; and the Ana Mendieta exhibition is organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Estate of Ana Mendieta.

The Le Parc display is supported by Anthropic, with additional support from the Julio Le Parc Exhibition Supporters Circle, Tate Members and Tate Americas Foundation. Tate’s newsletter does not state opening or closing dates for the presentation, and no event date range is supplied in the available material. It confirms only that Julio Le Parc is presented in the George Economou Gallery at Tate Modern.