The Maó-based gallery inaugurates a retrospective of the Venezuelan artist on June 3
The headquarters of the Cayón gallery in Menorca He already has everything ready for the inauguration on June 3 of a new season that, as already This newspaper reported last Marchwill star Jesus Rafael Soto (Venezuela, 1923; France, 2005), who is considered one of the world’s greatest exponents of kinetic arta plastic manifestation that gives a sensation of motion.
The collectionmade up of more than forty worksruns through the creator’s work between 1951 and 2004 and that can be visited until August 29. “We present one of the most ambitious exhibitions dedicated to his career organized in recent years,” they point out from the gallery, which highlights the figure of the Venezuelan as someone who “played a fundamental role in the redefinition of the work of art». In that sense, they highlight that «breaking with the conventional separation of painting and sculpturehis practice progressively moved beyond the visual realm to become emblematic in the radical turn that would give the artistic object in later years.
Transcending the optical research of its beginnings, those responsible for Cayón remember that Soto began to be interested in the sport very early on. geometric art and the constructivism. In Pariswhere he developed a large part of his work since his move to the French capital in 1950he exposed in the Salon des réalités nouvelles. There he met personalities such as Vasarely, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely or Alexander Calderbecoming part of the first group of kinetic artists with the famous exhibition «The movement” in the Denise René Gallery (1955). In this context, he became involved in the exploration of three-dimensional space treatment.
At one point in his career, Soto tries to go beyond the two-dimensional representation in order to introduce the motion and begin to see far beyond the plastic surfacecoming to include in a more decisive way the viewer in his works of art and entrusting him with a role active and fundamental in the new focal objective of his work, which has to do with the concept that «Without the viewer, the work does not exist.», they explain from the gallery.
