JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005). Untitled,... Lot 46

JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2005). Untitled, from the series "Olympic Centennial", 1992. Lithograph on Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 197/250. Signed and justified by hand. Size: 63 x 90 cm. A Venezuelan artist trained at the Caracas School of Art, Jesús Rafael Soto was an outstanding representative of kinetic art, which he initiated and developed at the end of the fifties. 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 honour in his native Ciudad Bolívar. He is currently represented in important collections such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York.