Jesús Rafael Soto. Neumann Vibration-Writing

Jesús Rafael Soto

Neumann Vibration-Writing

1964

Vinyl-acrylic on wood, painted steel, and nylon

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Medium Vinyl-acrylic on wood, painted steel, and nylon
Dimensions 40 3/16 × 67 15/16 × 6 5/16" (102 × 172.5 × 16 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Carolina Cisneros Phelps
Object number 875.2016
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto

Venezuelan, 1923–2005 33 works online

The 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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? - 2001, Galería D'Museo, Caracas.
2001 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Galería D’Museo.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

Caracas, Espacios Unión, "Del Siglo que se va. Doce Artistas del Siglo XX", August 1999

Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, "Geo-metrías. Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros", March 14 - May 19, 2003

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

MoMA Exh. #2424: "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift", 3rd Floor, 3 East, October 21, 2019 - September 12, 2020

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