Untitled

Julio Le Parc

Untitled Screenprint , 1980 70 x 50 cm 1/100

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Julio Le Parc (born in 1928, Mendoza, Argentina) lives and works in Paris, France. Le Parc began his studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires in 1943, where he became interested in Arte Concreto-Invención and the Spazialismo movement. In 1958, he received a scholarship from the French government and moved to Paris, where he began to explore kinetic art, focusing on three dimensions, movement, and light. Victor Vasarely's exhibition in Buenos Aires that same year was a significant catalyst for his career. In Paris, he collaborated with Vasarely's colleagues and studied Mondrian's writings, delving into the Constructivist tradition.

In 1966, Le Parc represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale, where he won the Grand International Prize for Painting. His career started with two-dimensional compositions in color and black and white in 1953, while he was still an art teacher in Buenos Aires. From 1960 onwards, he developed works using "milky" light, combining high intensity with a subtle expression of continuous movement.

Le Parc has had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and Latin America, including at Instituto di Tella (Buenos Aires), Museo de Arte Moderno (Caracas), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Casa de las Americas (Havana), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Daros (Zurich), and Städtische Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf). He has also participated in group exhibitions and biennials, such as the controversial MoMA exhibition, The Responsive Eye (1965), the Venice Biennale in 1966 (where he received the prize), and the São Paulo Biennial in 1967. In protest against the military regime in Brazil, he boycotted the São Paulo Biennial in 1969 and published an alternative catalog for the Contrabienal in 1971. He was involved in antifascist movements in Chile, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Recently, he has been the subject of major retrospectives, including exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery (London, 2014), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Casa Daros (Rio de Janeiro, 2013), MALBA (Buenos Aires, 2014), and Galeria Nara Roesler (São Paulo, 2013).