Alex Bloc

Alex Bloc, optical and constructivist art

Born in Strasbourg, Alex Bloc (Alex Bloch) has spent over twenty years exploring geometry as a language of perception. Heir to optical and constructivist art, he creates poetic architectures where line, light, and matter interact.

His works, poised between precision and fragility, transform flat surfaces into reliefs or optical illusions, inviting a contemplative experience.

Through his site-specific interventions, he celebrates impermanence, transition, and the subtle vibration of the world.

Rivage, the exhibition

From 2 October to 28 December 2026, Sakana Gallery presents Rivage, Alex Bloc’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Opening: Friday 2 October, 7 pm – 10 pm. Alkolea Pasaia 1, Egia district, Donostia-San Sebastián. Free entry.

Opening hours: Thursday to Saturday, 2 – 7 pm, and by appointment.

Press kit (PDF) · Catalogue (PDF)

Inspired by the coastline between Biarritz and San Sebastián, Rivage explores the perceptual structures of the shore: horizons, cliffs, waves, mineral strata, and shifting light. Through a geometric and optical vocabulary, Alex Bloc translates these elements into vibrating lines, grids, and reliefs. Rather than depicting the landscape, the works convey its rhythms, tensions, and movements. The shoreline thus becomes a space of transition, between stability and disappearance, geometric order and natural forces.

• Rivage, Sakana Gallery, Donostia-San Sebastián, 2 October to 28 December 2026. Twenty-five works: acrylic canvases, papers under fluted glass, paper cut-outs, Indian ink drawings, acrylics on paper.
• Exhibition catalogue, edition of 300.
• Exhibitions (selection): “Dialogue avec Monet”, Larock-Granoff, Paris (2026); “Salon du dessin”, Larock-Granoff, Paris (2026); “Blue Carbon”, Surfrider Campus, Biarritz (2024); “XU”, La Condition Publique, Roubaix (2019); “PAD”, Galerie Chamagne, Paris (2019); “Marrakech Biennale” (2016); “Artmosphere”, Biennale, Moscow (2016); “Urban Art Biennale”, Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen (2015); “Graffuturism”, In Situ, Art Basel, Miami (2011).
• An international practice since 2005: Paris, Biarritz, Strasbourg, Marrakech, Berlin, Saarbrücken, London, Portland, San Francisco, Miami (Art Basel 2011), Moscow, Cape Town.
• Website: alexbloc.com · Instagram @lx1one