The National Museum of Fine Arts -MNBA- (1473 del Libertador Avenue) presents next week the exhibition “Real/Virtual. Argentine Kinetic Art of the 60s”. Until August 19 you can enjoy the first exhaustive panorama of local kinetic art ever made. It gathers works from the Museum’s collection, private collectors and other institutions as the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA).
Kinetic art was born in the late fifties, as a
proposal of Victor Vasarely in his exhibition “The movement” (1955) in Denise
René Gallery in Paris. The artists experimented with transformable works base
on the real and virtual movement and the light as a main element. Many
Argentines residing in Paris embraced the new avant-garde (mainly Julio Le
Parc). In Argentina, the geometric traditions of Concrete Art have set the
basis for the experimentation with light and movement.
Real/Virtual shows the importance of kinetic art in
three decisive instances. The first one is the impact in local art of
Vasarely’s exhibition in the MNBA in 1958. The second one is characterized by
the optic-kinetic explorations of Julio Le Parc and Horacio Garcia Rossi and
their presentation in 1964 in the MNBA. Finally, the last instance is the
expansion of kinetic art in the 60s and the proliferation of experimental
artists in Argentina.
Real/Virtual is a great approach to Argentine Kinetic
Art, don’t miss it!
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