Jesús Rafaél Soto

(Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005). One of the main representatives of kinetic and optical art. The development of his work started from perceptual kineticism, to then encompass the entire space, intervening in it, as a dynamic element, through the superposition of transparent planes. In 1950 he moved to Paris. In 1956 he created his first kinetic structures: his kineticism was characterized by integrating into the work the perception of the viewer moving before the object. Starting in the 1960s, he designed penetrables and works of architectural integration, large-scale tours; generating compositions through the articulation of planes formed by lattices of various inclinations. On other occasions, through modulation, he created geometric structures that through repetition reach large dimensions, prevailing the monumental sense of occupation of space.