Painted wire, metal sheet, and synthetic polymer paint on wood
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Jesús Rafael Soto
Venezuelan, 1923–2005 33 works onlineThe artist Jesús Rafael Soto remembered days working as a messenger in his childhood. It was something I never got tired of seeing, that vibrating mass floating in space and shining over the roads.
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Good Vibrations
Gallery 410Jesús Rafael Soto and Bridget Riley, the two artists paired in this gallery, never met. But they each emerged as a leader of the international Op art movement in the 1950s and ’60s.
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Provenance
The artist.
? - August 28, 1995, Alain Jathiere, Caracas.
August 28, 1995 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Alain Jathiere.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Exhibition history
Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, "Force Fields: Phases of the kinetic", April 19 - June 18, 2000 and tour:
London, Hayward Gallery, July 13 - September 17, 2000
Maracaibo, Centro de Bellas Artes Ateneo de Maracaibo, "Jesús Soto en Maracaibo", September 29, 2002 - April 2, 2003
Caracas, Hotel Tamanaco Intercontinental, "Feria Iberoamericana de Arte”, July 6 - July 11, 2005
Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, "The Geometry of Hope. Latin american abstract art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", February 20 - April 22, 2007 and tour:
New York, Grey Art Gallery, September 12 - December 8, 2007
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