
(Mendoza, Argentina, 1928)
Julio Le Parc is one of the most renowned figures in the field of research, and experimental visual arts focused on both modern op-art and kinetic art, whose influence spans from the mid-20th century to the present. He studied at the National University of the Arts in Argentina, where he was first interested in the relationships between light and form. Immersed in the radical environment of the student movements of his native country, between 1955 and 1958, he participated in the occupations of the Academy of Fine Arts and the reformulation of its programs, oriented by the proposals of avant-garde artists such as the Arte-Concreto-Invención movement and where he met the influential art critic Jorge Romero Brest.
In 1958 he traveled to Paris after receiving a scholarship from the French Cultural Service, where he met artists such as Victor Vasarely and other important representatives of Kinetic art. From them, Le Parc extracted not only its formal proposals regarding movement but also its political implications to articulate aesthetic experiences without the need for previous knowledge or any sort of familiarity with the art world. Such implications derived into collective practices of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV), of which he was a founding member, guided by a rejection of the position of art in capitalism. The collective emphasized anonymity and the participation of spectators through the application of industrial, mechanical, and kinetic techniques alike.
Afterwards, he participated in the Atelier Populaire during May 68 in France, as well as in various avant-garde radical publications, anchoring his production – always close to Kinetism – in a social and political commitment that conceives spectators no longer as participants in the work, but as co-authors of it.
Currently lives and works in Paris, France.
Julio Le Parc
Ondes 161, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
100h x 100w cm
39 47/127h x 39 47/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Série 16 n°6, 1972-2022
Acrylic on canvas
150h x 150w cm
59 7/127h x 59 7/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Ondes 160, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
195h x 144w cm
76 98/127h x 56 88/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Alchimie 408, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
100h x 100w cm
39 47/127h x 39 47/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Ondes 157 Variation 3, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
195h x 114w cm
76 27/35h x 44 97/110w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Alchimie 368, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
200h x 200w cm
78 94/127h x 78 94/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Losange Allongé Rouge, 2017
Red plexiglass, wood, metal and nylon
230h x 112w x 112d cm
90 70/127h x 44 12/127w x 44 12/127d in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Alchemie 440, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
200h x 200w cm
78.74h x 78.74w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Serie 29 B nº 1-1 1-1, 1969-1972
Acrylic on canvas
150h x 150w cm
59 1/18h x 59 1/18w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Alchemie 431, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
100h x 100w cm
39.37h x 39.37w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
A partir de LM Nº2, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
130h x 130w cm
51 23/127h x 51 23/127w in
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Alchemie 447, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
100h x 100w cm
Unique
Julio Le Parc
Mobile rectangle dans l'espace, 1967 - 2009
Mirrors on nylon cords
63.50h x 30w x 30d cm
25h x 11 73/90w x 11 73/90d in
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