Jesús Soto Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1923--2005.
Venezuelan kinetic artist, central figure of the abstract, optical and kinetic art of his country. He studied Fine Arts in Caracas and, attracted by the European avant-gardes, he settled in Paris in 1950. There he met the work of Piet Mondrian, Kazmir Malevich, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Duchamp, who were fundamental in the radical turn in his conception of the artistic object.
In 1958 he began his series Vibrations, where he started using the superposition of planes, frames and moving objects, to create the possibility of infinite variations, while also introducing the problem of time and space in the artwork.
His work is a commitment to the active participation of the viewer, artistic interventions in public space and the work of art as a means of knowledge.
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Colección Marión Art Gallery
Colectiva 10 Apr - 13 Aug 2023Marión Art Gallery is pleased to present our most recent collective exhibition entitled 'Marión Gallery Collection', a show that presents the artworks of outstanding contemporary artists from different generations and...Read more -
VARIATION AND PERCEPTION: CRUZ-DIEZ ANNIVERSARY
Collective 17 Aug - 17 Oct 2021Variation and perception History and legacy of Kinetic Art An exhibition celebrating the 98th anniversary of Carlos Cruz-Diez. In the middle of the 20th century, a series of artists, groups...Read more -
Linea en Suspensión
COLLECTIVE 1 Jan - 29 Feb 2020Among the formal elements that artists have had throughout history to elaborate and sustain their discursive proposals, line has undoubtedly played a leading role. The line is consubstantial with drawing,...Read more
