Grande écriture, 1972
Wires, nylon threads, wood
(H x W x D)150 × 300 × 27 cm
Status
on display, room 033 About the workThe Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto trained at an art school in Caracas. In 1950 he moved to Paris, where he began to make kinetic installations from industrial and synthetic materials such as nylon and wire. This work – translated "The Great Writing" – belongs to the series "Écritures", which he began in 1962. The background is painted with vertical black and white stripes. In the foreground, Soto arranged geometric shapes – semicircles, curves and straight lines – made of wire. As the viewers move, an optical effect is produced in which everything seems to vibrate.
AccessionAcquisition 1972
Provenance[...]; 1972 angekauft von der Galerie Denise René / Hans Mayer, Krefeld
Inventory number0.1972.18