Alchimie, 2018

Julio Le Parc   Master Artists

Technique:

Lithograph, eight colors on 270 gr Rives vellum.

Draw:

300 copies signed and numbered from 1 to 300.

Julio Le Parc, born in Argentina in 1928, arrived in France in 1958 after obtaining a scholarship. He settled in Paris where he still lives today. Quickly led by the artists he met upon his arrival, he moved away from figurative painting to turn towards geometric abstraction and the implementation of perceptive sculptures. Movement, light and color became the fundamental elements of his research.

In the early 1960s he co-founded the GRAV (Visual Art Research Group) with François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Horacio Garcia Rossi and Yvaral. A period of exchanges and intense experimentation during which "kinetic art" was invented. For the group, the spectator should not be considered as a passive element receiving the works of art as elements created by the all-powerful figure of the artist but on the contrary he must be in interaction with them.

Julio Le Parc's first solo exhibition took place in 1966 in New York, and that same year he won the Grand Prix for painting at the Venice Biennale. He was then one of the pillars of the Galerie Denise René.

His commitment during the 1968 uprising and his active participation in popular workshops for the production of protest posters led to his expulsion from France. A support committee formed by certain artists and intellectuals allowed his return a few months later. It was outside France that he found success until his participation in the exhibition Erre, variations labyrinthiques at the Centre Pompidou Metz in 2011 and especially in the major retrospective dedicated to him by the Palais de Tokyo in 2013.