MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO "JESÚS SOTO"

23 de Junio del 2018, un día donde nos dimos la grandiosa oportunidad de visitar el Museo de Arte Moderno "Jesús Soto". 

Kenndrith Bayola (Yo). Fotografía tomada por Tomás Pulido.

La M.M.S.R II Cohorte de Inglés cada día nos permite aprender  de nuestra cultura

Nos convertimos en una Gran Familia

Esta vez fue a mi a quien le correspondió dialogar un poco sobre el Mr. Jesús Soto y sus Obras

THE MASTER PIECES OF THE MR. JESUS SOTO

• 1923. Jesus Rafael Soto was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar state, on June 5, son of Luis Rafael Garcia Parra and Emma Soto. He spent his childhood and early youth in Ciudad Bolívar and its surroundings.

Reseña de la vida de Jesús Soto en el Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto

• 1942. At age 19, he obtained a scholarship from the regional government to undertake his studies at the School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts of Caracas, where he studied pure art and teaching between 1942 and 1947.

• 1947. At the end of his studies, he was appointed director of the School of Fine Arts of Maracaibo, a position he held until 1950, when a government grant allowed him to travel to Paris to continue his research.

• 1949. Before traveling to Paris, he presents his first solo exhibition at the Free Art Workshop in Caracas.

• 1950. Begins a period of intense study of abstract art, in his view, the greatest plastic revolution after the Italian Renaissance.

• 1951. In the spring, Soto travels to Holland to meet the work of Piet Mondrian

• 1952. He start your repetitions and progressions

Muro Óptico 1951

• 1952/1953. He makes the small set of serial works. In them he tries to obtain a plastic equivalent of the musical practices discovered in the twelve-tone music.

• 1954. Superimposing regular frames of points and pictures by means of a transparent plexiglass, it manages to introduce real time, no longer suggested in the work, but produced by the very displacement of the observer before it.

Progresión 1952

Metamorfosis 1954

• 1955. Participates in the exhibition "Le mouvement" (the movement), organized by the French gallerist Denise René, shows that marks the historical birth of "Cinetismo". Start the series titled Kinetic Structures (1956-1957).

• 1957.  He abandons the use of Plexiglas and replaces the lines painted by metal rods welded together. From there, he obtains one of the essential characteristics of his work, the vibration of a metallic element on a background pattern.

                                                                   Estructura Cinética 1957

• 1960. He obtains in Venezuela the National Prize of Plastic Arts.

• 1962. During the sixties another crucial process was developed for his work, a process that will culminate in 1967, with one of his conceptual and formally more coherent and pure inventions, the "Penetrable".

Penetrable en el Museo Jesús Soto

• 1969.  This year marks the moment of his international consecration with the great retrospective exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. This same year the creation of the Museum of Modern Art Jesús Soto in Ciudad Bolívar was decreed.

• 1973. The Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art is inaugurated in Ciudad Bolívar, one of its most important contributions to Venezuelan culture. In it he deposits not only a representative set of his personal work, but also an exceptional set of works produced by his European and Latin American contemporaries.

• 1983. He starts the Ambivalences series, his last plastic invention, in which he returns to be interested in the chromatic problems of the fifties.

Ambivalencia 1993

• 1995. He receives the National Prize for Sculpture in Paris, France

• 2005. Jesus Soto dies in his house in Paris, on January 14.

Thank you Soto for your Master pieces