Modulate contrasts in the surface noise
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| Julio Le Parc et Jean de Loisy. Vernissage lundi 25 février © Photo : Didier Plowy |
Julio Le Parc’s work is presented these days at the Palais Tokyo in Paris featuring a selection of large-scale works and installations ranging from the 1950s to today. The artist born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1928, founding member of G.R.A.V. (Visual Art Research Group) and recipient of the Grand Prize for Painting at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, describes his artistic creation as a way to seek together with the public. "Generally speaking, I have tried, through my experiments, to elicit a different type of behavior from the viewer […] to seek, together with the public, various means of fighting off passivity, dependency or ideological conditioning, by developing reflective, comparative, analytical, creative or active capacities."1. His work comes from reflection as the unique way to explore outside the ephemeral creative trends which he thinks are usually created because of commercial interests. His reflection walks along the visual spectrum looking for spaces for wondering about the boundaries in where are born the contrasts. And all the spaces he finds or creates are not finished without the public experiences. As he said in the declaration of the N.E.A.N.T. (Nothingness) group in 1964: “This group is unlimited. Everyone is included...Things will not happen. There is no program, and it belongs to everyone.”2
In works like the series Continous-Mobils Julio Le Parc experiments with light boxes in order to express the diversity of points of view in front the same situation. Depending on the observer, the situation is always lived in a different way. Even more, depending on the current circumstances of the observer, the situation is experimented in a different way. This diversity is expressed playing with the intensity of light on different shapes to convert them in completely new ones. In the experiments titled Displacements the pictures are linked to the walk of the viewer whose path speed up the changes. So the viewer is a main part of an artistic work that becomes new in every point of view like in an alchemy process. In fact, one of his first experiments is called Alchemies, made in Buenos Aires in 1957. “Indifferent to the pressure exerted by the various artistic currents, keeping as much as I could, my freedom of creativity, risking to contradicted myself and disturb those who are chocked by the lack of style.Those “alchemies” are part with no reserve of my adventure alive through my work as an experimental artist”3. Julio Le Parc is definitely an experimenter of life, a creator of new freedoms.
JULIO LE PARC | EXHIBITION here VIDEOS here
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Julio Le Parc website www.julioleparc.org
Reference 1 courtesy of Palais de Tokyo Paris
References 2 and 3 courtesy of Julio Le Parc website
Photo by Didier Plowy. © Photo : Didier Plowy
Courtesy of Palais de Tokyo Paris
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JULIO LE PARC | EXHIBITION here VIDEOS here
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Julio Le Parc website www.julioleparc.org
Reference 1 courtesy of Palais de Tokyo Paris
References 2 and 3 courtesy of Julio Le Parc website
Photo by Didier Plowy. © Photo : Didier Plowy
Courtesy of Palais de Tokyo Paris
All rights reserved