Penetrable Azul
People walking inside Penetrable Azul 1999 from Jesus Rafael Soto Soto June 5 1923 in Ciudad Bolà  var Venezuela January 14 2005 in Paris France was a Venezuelan artist He was a sculptor and painter and is most famous for his op art works He was trained in Venezuela and his early influences were Cubism Cezanne and Mondrian Soto began his artistic career painting cinema posters in his native city Soto directed the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Maracaibo from 1947 to 1950 when he left for Paris and began associating with Yaacov Agam Jean Tinguely Victor Vasarely and other artists connected with the Salon des Realites Nouvelles and the Galerie Denise Rene He became world famous as a kinetic sculptor Soto is particularly well known for his penetrables interactive sculptures which consist of square arrays of thin dangling tubes through which observers can walk It has been said of Soto s art that it is inseparable from the viewer it can only stand completed in the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observing the piece From 1970 until the early 1990s Soto s works appeared in places such as the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris Jesus Rafael Soto is interred in the Cimetiere du Montparnasse in Paris In 1973 the Jesus Soto Museum of Modern Art opened in Ciudad Bolivar Venezuela with a collection of his work a large number of the exhibits are wired to the electricity supply so that they can move The Venezuelan architect Carlos Raul Villanueva designed the building for the museum Some of Soto s work adorns the ceiling of the main hall of Caracas arts centre the Teatro Teresa Carreao source Wikipedia org
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