Kinesthesia - Latin American Kinetic Art (1954-1969) - Beau Livre

Kinesthesia, Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969 is the first in-depth examination of the pioneering role played by South American artists in the international Kinetic Art movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Kinesthesia begins its survey with the layered "vibrational" works created by Jesús Rafael Soto for the historic Le Mouvement exhibition at Galerie Denise René in Paris (1955) and goes on to explore more than fifty examples by eight other artists : Martha Boto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Horacio Garcia-Rossi, Gyula Kosice, Julio Le Parc, Alejandro Otero, Abraham Palatnik, and Gregorio Vardánega.
Kinesthesia makes a compelling case that although Paris remains the indisputable capital of Kinetic Art, much of the Latin American work thought to be in that category did not come into being as a consequence of the movement, but often anticipated, and unfolded in tandem with, the better-known European developments.