Perla Benveniste

At the end of the 60s and while the interest in cinetism in Argentine art was growing, Perla Benveniste (1942) was a young artist interested in the study of movement and the phenomena of perception. After the exhibition The Instability, a large audience participated in the playful experiences that Julio Le Parc presented in 1967 in the rooms of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (ITDT). Companies and foundations began to stimulate the trend and, in 1968, the National Salon opened the "Visual Investigations" section to include the new experimental art formats. Benveniste obtained a Mention in the Visual Investigation Competition convened in 1970,. And with the passing of the decade a fallback in his productions originated that led to a marked transformation in the poetics of his works.
In recent years, kineticism has regained its place in the market thanks to important exhibitions, in our country and abroad, that have dealt with this artistic movement that had its heyday in the 60s.
This current, which is based on the aesthetics of the movement, begins to develop after the First World War and acquires greater strength from the fifties when the kinetic factor of vision in plastic creation is investigated with greater precision. To achieve this, artists choose three different paths: The illusion of a virtual movement that does not really exist produced by the optical impression of the viewer; the induction to the spectator to move in the space so that it organizes in his mind the reading of a sequence or the accomplishment of movements of images by means of motors or other sources.
2025, she was part of Percepción/Ilusión: Argentine Kinetic Art in the 1960s, curated by María José Herrera at the National Museum of Fine Arts. She continues to develop her practice around optical and kinetic art.