Eduardo Rodriguez

In the 1960s, a new art form, called kinetic because it incorporated movement, challenged viewers with images they never expected to see in a museum. Paintings of vibrant forms, unstable in their composition, “magical” machines of light and color interacted with visitors, bringing them a little closer to the way we actually perceive: simultaneously and with our whole bodies.
Kinetic art unfolds in space and time. It creates open works that occur before the active eyes of the viewer. Like performances, the works need the audience to be complete.
Umberto Eco, one of the first to reflect on kinetic art, stated that it is a sensibility that reveals forms in their constant flux. Perla Benveniste and Eduardo Rodríguez, from those years to the present, work with machines, reliefs, and sculptures whose magic lies in transformation. With ingenious mechanisms, forms and colors mutate almost infinitely, in a poetic metaphor for life and its transcendence.
Expanding the senses and imagination is the aim of an art form that aspires to allow everyone to enjoy the adventure of creation and beauty. Kinetic art sought to restore curiosity and enjoyment to the apathetic gaze of the masses in the contemporary world. Like true magicians of light and color, Benveniste and Rodríguez draw us into the wonder and mystery of the machine. This art, even today in the digital age, challenges our perception and capacity for awe, allowing the unique moment of an aesthetic experience to emerge.
María José Herrera
Curator