Jesús Rafael Soto
Organized by Paris' Centre Pompidou, Soto, an exhibition featuring selections from the kinetic-art oeuvre of Venezuela's Jesús Rafael Soto, is open to the public through May 20th.
Presenting a total of 20 artworks dated between 1955 and 2004, the exhibition opens with Gran doble escritura, a visual pun in black and white. The public will encounter, at the Parisian cultural center, works ranging from Soto's earliest Plexiglas relieves of the 1950s to one of his celebrated "penetrables".
This show has been curated by Jean-Paul Ameline and was made possible thanks to a donation of 20 works to the French government by Soto's descendants.
Jesús Rafael Soto was born to a family of modest means in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, in 1923, and arrived in Paris in 1950 to discover, with other Venezuelan and Latin American colleagues, modern art. From the time of his arrival to the French capital, Soto began to develop a body of work whose principal axis was motion, the triad space-duration-matter, and a series of playful optical explorations.
