Jesús Rafael Soto
| Jesús Rafael Soto | |
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| Born |
June 5, 1923 Ciudad Bolívar |
| Died | January 14, 2005 (aged 81) Paris |
| Nationality | Venezuelan |
| Education | Escuela de Artes Plasticas y Aplicadas |
| Notable work | Penetrables |
| Movement | Kinetic and Op Art |
Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 14, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.
Soto was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He began his artistic career as a boy painting cinema posters in his native city. He received his artistic training at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas in Caracas.
Soto directed the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Maracaibo from 1947 to 1950, when he left for Paris and began associating with Yaacov Agam, Jean Tinguely, Victor Vasarely, and other artists connected with the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and the Galerie Denise René. Soto's breakthrough works of the 1950s and 1960s were "geometric abstract paintings, using a limited and carefully selected array of flat colors."Caroni, for example, is a minimalist arrangement of static geometric forms in unmodulated silver, blue, and black inks on white paper.
Soto was interested in perception, and this is reflected in the interactive nature of some of his work. It has been said of Soto's art that it is inseparable from the viewer; it can only stand completed in the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observing the piece. For example, Soto created the so-called Penetrables, interactive sculptures which consist of square arrays of thin, dangling tubes through which observers can walk. Soto made over 25 Penetrables in his career.
Jesús Rafael Soto died in 2005 in Paris, and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
From 1970 until the early 1990s, Soto's works appeared in places such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 2001, he participated in the SITE Santa Fe biennial. before his death some important mayor exhibitions has been realized, highlighting as the most important, the itinerant exhibition "Visión en Movimiento" displayed at Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico DF, Mexico (Nov. 10, 2005 - Apr. 30, 2006), Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jun. 13 - Sep. 17, 2006) and "Visione in Movimento" at Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy (Oct. 13, 2006 - Feb. 25, 2007).
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