JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005). Untitled. Silkscreen... Lot 14

JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005). Untitled. Silkscreen on Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 114/250. Signed and justified by hand. Size: 63 x 90 cm. A Venezuelan artist trained at the Escuela de Arte de Caracas, Jesús Soto was an outstanding representative of kinetic art, which he began and developed in the late 1950s. Between the seventies and the nineties, already fully established internationally, he held important exhibitions in places such as the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, etc. He also took part in the Venice Biennale in 1966 and the São Paulo Biennale in 1996. Particularly famous for his penetrable sculptures, he also carried out projects such as the decoration of the main hall of the Teatro Teresa Carreño in Caracas. Soto was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas de Venezuela, and in 1973 the Venezuelan government inaugurated a museum in his honor in his native Ciudad Bolívar. He is currently represented in important collections such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York.