Jesús Rafael Soto

(Ciudad Bolivar, 1923 - Paris, 2005). He studied at the School of Art in Caracas, where he met Carlos Cruz Diez and Alejandro Otero. In 1950 he moved to Paris, where he lived until his death. In France he discovers the work of Paul Klee and, above all, Piet Mondrian. In 1966 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1988 he created the Virtual Sphere for the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seoul. In the nineties he shows his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Kamakura, Japan (1990), at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris (1993), at the Kunshalle in Cologne, Germany (1993), at the MOMA in New York (1993) and at the São Paulo Biennial (1966). His work is part of important international collections and one of the main museums of plastic arts in Venezuela bears his name.