Martha Botho

Martha Boto (1925-2004) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a painter and sculptor, she focused her work around research on the optical variations of light and color, as well as movement. She was a member of the New Art Association and in 1956 she was part of the Argentine Non-Figurative Artists group. In 1959 she settled permanently in Paris where she made contact with the Op-art Movement and Kinetic Art. Her kinetic and optical works were oriented to the juxtaposition of static or mobile reliefs, experimenting with chance, play and movement.
Her work is included in public and private collections such as the Center Georges Pompidou, the National Fund for Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France; the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), the Torcuato Di Tella Foundation and the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA; among many others.