Eduardo Rodríguez
Bio
His work is part of the stream of Argentine kinetic art. At the end of the 1960s, Rodríguez began studying motion, light, time and perceptual phenomena. He works together with Julio Le Parc and other pioneering artists in the experimentation of kinetism in Argentina. In 1970, he obtained the Grand Prize of Honor in the First Visual Investigation Competition. Thanks to a grant from the National Fund for the Arts, he studies in Paris.
Rodríguez explores the aesthetic perception of movement, from experimentation with shapes and colors through the manipulation of materials such as acrylics, celluloids and papers.
Statement
At the end of the 1960s and while interest in kinetic art was growing in Argentine art, Eduardo Rodríguez became interested in the study of movement and the phenomena of perception. After the exhibition La inestabilidad, a massive audience participated in the playful experiences that Julio Le Parc presented in 1967 at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute. In 1968, the Salón Nacional opened the “Visual Investigations” section to include the new formats of experimental art. Benveniste obtained a Mention in the Visual Research Competition held in 1970. And with the passing of the decade, a retreat was originated in her productions that gave rise to a marked transformation in the poetics of her works.
In recent years, kineticism has recovered 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 1960s.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
