Vibrations métalliques
27.3 cms x 29.8 cms x 12.7 cms (10.75 ins x 11.75 ins x 10.75 ins)
On verso signed, titled, editioned 38/250 and dated 1969 on the gallery label
made in 1969
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "October 2015 Online auction" held on Thu, Oct 29, 2015.
Lot 108
Lot 108
Estimate: CAD $20,000 - $30,000
Realised: CAD $17,700
Realised: CAD $17,700
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Éditions Denise René, Paris
Dunkleman Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
One of the most important Kinetic and Op artists of the twentieth century, Jesús Rafael Soto moved from Venezuela to Paris in 1950 and began to associate with Yaacov Agam, Victor Vasarely and other artists associated with the well-known Galerie Denise René. This gallery was instrumental in championing both Op and Kinetic art movements with seminal exhibitions such as Le Mouvement in 1955, which introduced and helped popularize the artistic movements. Soto produced Vibration métalliques in 1969 with the Éditions Denise René, a subsidiary of Galerie Denise René, and this work is a characteristic example of Soto's unique approach to working with spatial, optical and auditory phenomena. Continuous spatial variations are generated by the interaction and perspective of the viewer and in the optical illusion perceived by the mind, a hallmark of the Op art movement. The Museo de arte moderno Jesús Soto in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela opened in 1973, and Soto's works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
Éditions Denise René, Paris
Dunkleman Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Notes:
One of the most important Kinetic and Op artists of the twentieth century, Jesús Rafael Soto moved from Venezuela to Paris in 1950 and began to associate with Yaacov Agam, Victor Vasarely and other artists associated with the well-known Galerie Denise René. This gallery was instrumental in championing both Op and Kinetic art movements with seminal exhibitions such as Le Mouvement in 1955, which introduced and helped popularize the artistic movements. Soto produced Vibration métalliques in 1969 with the Éditions Denise René, a subsidiary of Galerie Denise René, and this work is a characteristic example of Soto's unique approach to working with spatial, optical and auditory phenomena. Continuous spatial variations are generated by the interaction and perspective of the viewer and in the optical illusion perceived by the mind, a hallmark of the Op art movement. The Museo de arte moderno Jesús Soto in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela opened in 1973, and Soto's works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, among others.
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