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Matilde Pérez Cerda (1916 - 2014) is a Chilean visual artist and pioneer of modern and kinetic art in Chile.
It was in 1960, when she moved to Paris, France that she began to take an interest in kinetic art, particularly the work of Victor Vasarely. Matilde Perez's work experiments with the possibilities of creating virtual movement through optical illusion, based on the investigation of the visual effects of abstract forms and the use of color.
Matilde Perez has realized more than fifty art exhibitions in the world during the years 2000 and 2010, including El Ojo Latino, Colección Luciano Benetton at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (2008), Exposición Arte en América at the Cultural Center of the Palacio La Moneda (2010- 2011), Mavi la Colección at the Museum of Visual Arts in Santiago (2011), and her participation in the Official Hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947.
Her work has also received numerous awards, the BBC called her "one of the most acclaimed women in the international art world".
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1916