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Images courtesy Suzanne Tarasieve Paris

Swiss artist Pierre Schwerzmann creates bold canvases that seem to contain a kinetic energy. Blocks of color sit next to black and white spaces that appear to throb and move. Some even seem set to hypnotize us—but the experience is too heady to label a trompe l'oeil.