Julio Le Parc
Subtitle: transición Buenos Aires-París (1955-1959)
By: curadora, Mariana Marchesi ; textos, Andrés Duprat [and three others] ; coordinación editorial, Ezequiel Grimson
Contributors: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina). Asociación Amigos; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina)
Publisher: Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional Bellas Artes
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Buenos Aires]
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9789871428472
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; History; Artists; Biography; Kinetic art; Argentine Art; Modern Art; Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visual (GRAV)
Other titles: Transición Buenos Aires-París (1955-1959); Julio Le Parc.; Julio Le Parc. English.
Description: Curated by the artistic director of fine arts, Mariana Marchesi, the exhibition comprises a hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints, some of them never exhibited, highlighting the early work of the great Argentine artist. Covering a period from Julio Le Parc's (b. Mendoza, Argentina, 1928) student days in the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires until his early years in Paris, where he developed his initial experiences with geometric abstraction. In 1957 he started experimenting with abstract techniques, and in 1958 he was awarded a scholarship by the French government, settling in Paris where he founded theGRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel [Visual Art Research Group]) being part, at the same time, of the Nueva Tendencia. In the 1960's Le Parc was considered within the movement called Op-art (artwork whose movement is created by motors, machines, or electrically powered systems), considered a portion of kinetic art, and even conceptual art, although his works transcends them and is more experimental.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), August 21-November 17, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Julio Le Parc: El concepto de la geometría / Andrés Duprat; title: Gouaches 1958-1959: Julio Le Parc; title: Entre Buenos Aires y Paris; title: Las primeras investigaciones visuales de Julio Le Parc / Mariana Marchesi; title: En papel y en movimiento: La experimentación en los inicios de la obra de Julio Le Parc / Silvia Dolinko; title: Los años de formación y la tradición de la enseñanza; title: La revuelta de los estudiantes y la experimentación de las formas; title: Paris 1959: El ojo y la superación activa; title: La inestabilidad; title: Cronología Buenos Aires-Paris 1955-1959; title: Obras de exhibición; title: English Translation.