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atin America has produced one of the artists working at different moments and producing most original and experimental chapters innovative work such as: Hercules Barsotti, Willys Durban Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting Lof the history of twentieth century art in de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio and sculpture, with particular emphasis in artists who have its many geometric abstract artists and trends, Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel and Alfredo between the 1940s and the 1970s. In recent years, Volpi, to name just a few. Clearly in the worked with , abstraction, particularly the Neo Concrete artists from ; the most internationally recognized artists are: Gego, constructivism, geometric and kinetic art. Grupo in and the Kinetic artists in Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, while Venezuela, have received special attention. The Alejandro Otero continues to be lesser known and Simultaneously the Gallery strives to promote and diffuse epicenter of Geometric Abstraction has been understood; as well as Mercedes Pardo and Elsa new artistic values as well as the historical vanguards that seen as Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay (José Pedro Gramcko. Costigliolo, María Freire and Antonio Llorens) and have influenced them. Worldwide, Durban Segnini Gallery is Venezuela, nevertheless more research has shown t would be pointless to continue with long known for its expertise in such areas as the integration of how other less expected countries such as , lists of artists and movements. The few names artworks to architectural spaces as well as for its customized have experienced a sophisticated geometric art mentioned above illustrate the richness and production in artists such as Mario Carreño, Santu I diversity in the arena of Abstraction in Latin counseling of private collections. Darie, Carmen Herrera, José Mijares, Lolo Soldevilla, America which is further complicated by the fact and others. also, possesses several that between the 1940s and 1970s, a multiple and important geometric artists such as: Feliza Bursztyn, interwoven process of exchange existed between Omar Carreño, Eduardo Ramírez-Villamizar, Carlos Cesar Paternosto, Señales negro, rojo, oro 3, 2008. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay for example, and Mixed on canvas Rojas, Edgar Negret (Colombia, 1920) and Manolo also between these countries (and Venezuela) and 35 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (90 x 90 cm.) Carlos Cruz-Díez Vellojín. Even which is mostly seen as a Europe, particularly . Also a whole separate country that produced great Muralist art includes: singular chapter pertains to modernist photography Beto De Volder Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Mérida and Gunther beginning with in Brazil, in Gyula Kosice Gerzso. Furthermore, in countries with no important Colombia with Leo Matiz and in Argentina through abstract tradition, individual figures emerged such Grete Stern, to mention a few examples. Not all Julio Le Parc as Guatemalan Margarita Azurdia, Chilean Matilde geometric art is clearly definable, particularly in the Mateo Manaure Pérez, or Ecuadorian Araceli Gilbert. case of many Brazilian artists whose abstract work was political and/or conceptual. In Venezuela this Cesar Paternosto evertheless, the abstract panorama in can be said of artist Eugenio Espinoza, or in Brazil of Omar Rayo Latin America is immensely complex Ana María Maiolino. Nand diverse; as an example, Argentina, Carlos Rojas beginning in the mid-1940s had a succession of he abstract trend continue today in Latin Fanny Sanín experimental and prolific abstract artists. Besides America, as many artists continues to the well known Madí artists such as Gyula Kosice, produce some of the most challenging Jesús Rafael Soto Rhod Rothfuss, Martín Blaszko and Arden Quin, are T and experimental works in this field, expanding Ramírez Villamizar artists from the Arte Concreto-Invención (1945) its arena to installation art, video art, and many such as Lidy Prati, Manuel Espinoza y Juan Melé. conceptual and aesthetic variations, often as only Raúl Lozza, coming from this movement, went on one of the art forms in their oeuvre, while they also to create the Manifiesto Perceptista in 1947. Lucio explore figurative art, or work with mass culture and Fontana published his Manifiesto Blanco in Buenos objects. Aires in 1946. In the 1960s the Neoabstracción geométrica includes some important artists such as 3072 SW 38th Ave. María Martorell, Rogelio Polesello, Ary Brizzi, just to Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Miami, Fl 33146 P: 1 (305) 774 7740 mention a few. Also in the 1960s saw the flourishing British Venezuelan curator and art F: 1 (305) 774 7741 of great Kinetic artists such as Julio Le Parc, Martha Carmelo Arden Quin, Untitled, 1951. historian, chief curator at MOLAA, [email protected] Boto, Gregorio Vardanega and Luis Tomasello. Brazil Duco on wood, 19.4 x 17 in. (49 x 43 cm), www.durbansegnini.com Long Beach, CA 2 also has an infinite number of interesting abstract sammer gallery miami modern and contemporary latin american constructivism and Pedro Costigliolo, Composicion, 1955. Tempera on cardboard, 88 x 70 cm é Jos

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