Jesus Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005) was one of the leading representatives of kinetic and optical art. The development of his work began with perceptive kineticism and later expanded to 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 the perception of the spectator in motion in relation to the object. Starting in the 1960s, he designed penetrables and large-scale architectural integration works, creating compositions through the articulation of planes formed by lattices at various angles. On other occasions, through modulation, he created geometric structures that, through repetition, reached great dimensions, emphasizing the monumental sense of space occupation.