Explanation of binocular perspective

The spark

The magic of reflections

Depth explained

An intellectual dimension

At the Louvre

At the Palais de la Découverte (Paris)

Far-reaching experiences

Meeting with Karpov

In this series of videos, explore the principles of binocular perspective discovered by the artist. The artist presented his discovery at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (2004), at the UN Palace in Geneva (2006), in a performance at the Louvre (2008), at WIPO in Geneva (2011), and at a conference at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris (2011).

The child’s drawing

Entitled CHILD’S DRAWING, this film recounts the incredible circumstance that not only encouraged Albert Sauteur to paint but also led to an extraordinary discovery.

It was in front of the mirror, while framing his first self-portrait, that the artist identified for the first time a binocular effect.

The artist created a work that reveals the reflection of the invisible. To make the experience plausible, he designed a device, placed in front of the painting like a sculpture, allowing everyone to experience it.

While revealing to us how to represent depth perceived through our two eyes, Albert Sauteur also offers, in addition to his teaching resources, an insight into the richness of his observations.

The humor with which the artist faced adversity often enabled him to progress in his slow and persistent quest for binocular perspective.

Five centuries after Dürer praised, illustrating it in an engraving, the benefits of traditional perspective, Albert Sauteur responds with a painting that reveals its contradiction.

To decondition the observer who cannot perceive the binocular effect, the artist offers an astonishing experience.

Albert Sauteur explains why, in his educational path, he uses the names of the cities he visits to introduce his lectures.

The artist met Karpov to demonstrate to his detractors that an individual, even if he has spent his life focusing on one and the same object, has not necessarily perceived the binocular effect.

The artist describes the device he designed to explain, through his Experimental Self-Portrait, his discovery of binocular perspective.

Experimental self-portrait