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Jesús Rafael Soto

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“Sphère Concorde”, 1996 Nylon and wood 257 x 184 x 184 cm Private collection

I came across the work of venezuelan op-artist Jesús Rafael Soto while in Buenos Aires last month. The Fundación Proa, a nice gallery in the Boca neighborhood, was hosting Visión en Movimiento, an exhibit containing some of Soto's most important pieces organized by the Tamayo museum.

Considered a pioneer in kinetic art during the 50s, Soto aims at generating movement within virtual spaces and was largely influenced by artists such as Mondrian, Malevich and the Bauhaus school. By overlaying Plexiglas, nylon or wood over geometric paintings, he creates a third dimension where displacement occurs.

Movement does not exist intrinsically in his pieces, but is emergent from the relations between color, forms and space, and in that manner deeply connected with the spectator and one's point of view. For Soto there should be no separation between observer and work of art.

That notion is evident in his Penetrables, where the spectator can walk within the hanging wires and thus become part of the work itself. In his own words: "With these Penetrables I have come to materialize the profound feeling of this situation of man submerged in a "filled up" universe, where matter, space and time are one continuum of infinite vibrations."

Soto died in 2005, in Paris, at the age of 82.

These pieces can hardly be shown through photographs, but i've posted some more on my flickr page. For those wanting to see them live, the Visión en Movimiento exhibit will open at the GAMeC in Bergamo, Italy, on October 12th.

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ele é maravilhoso. esta obra esteve na penúltima - acho - bienal do mercosul. o curioso é que tem uma alemã que mora(va?) há anos na venezuela que também faz um trabalho similar sobre a imaterialidade e a leveza em obras tridimensionais. gertrud seiláquem. esteve no malba em bs.as. este ano.

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