Artist
Jesús Rafael Soto
1923–2005 · Venezuelan
Jesús Rafael Soto moved to Paris in 1950 and became one of kinetic art’s most important figures. Beginning with serial lines and vibrating optical structures, he developed suspended rods and large Penetrables that dissolve the boundary between sculpture, space and viewer.
Kinetic sculpture; installation; painting
Major Works
- 1956Doble transparencia →
- 1958Vibration Structure →
- 1957Pre-Penetrable →
- 1967 onwardPenetrable →
- 1965Vibración →
- 1963Escritura →
- 2014 installation / concept developed earlierHouston Penetrable →
- 1979Cube of Nylon →
- 1981Ambivalencia en el espacio color no. 24 →
- 1988Volume virtuel suspendu →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
