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Jesus Rafael Soto
[English & Italian Texts]
Edited by Tatiana Cuevas & Paolo Santoscoy
October 2007
Silvana Editoriale
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788836607907
96 Pages, Illustrated
$54.00 Paper
Jesús Rafael Soto was a sculptor and painter
and is most famous for his op art and kinetic art works. His early influences
were Cubism, Cézanne
and Mondrian and he became worldfamous as a kinetic sculptor. Soto is particularly
well known for his penetrables, interactive sculptures which consist of square
arrays of thin, dangling tubes through which observers can walk. It has been
said of Soto's art that it is inseparable from the viewer; it can only s
tand
completed in the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observing
the piece.
The catalogue presents a selection of representative works of the
artist’s aesthetic investigations from the 1950s to the late 1990s.
The pieces represent the outcome of a process of experimentation that led
Soto to expand twodimensional surfaces into three-dimensional space in order
to broaden the possibilities of interaction with the viewer, who would thus
form part of a new visual situation. The selection of works follows two parallel
lines in Soto’s
work.
The first corresponds to his relationship with music through the abstraction
of chromatic units used as compositional elements; the second involves the
alteration of the everyday experience of space through confrontation with
these works.
Exhibition schedule
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo. 13th October 2006 – 25th
February 2007
Highlights:
• Includes an interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• One of the pioneers and great exponents of Kinetic Art
• A must have publication for all lovers of Soto’s work
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