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Julio Le Parc Argentine, b. 1928
Julio Le Parc was born in Mendoza in 1928, but currently lives and works in Cachan, France. He is an Argentine artist associated with Op Art and Kinetic Art movements. Le Parc attended the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, where he formed the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visual (GRAV), along with Francisco Sobrino, François Morellet, Yvaral (Jean Pierre Vasarely), and others.
This group, active in Paris in the 1960s, was committed to creating collaborative works and merging individual artistic endeavors into collective, anonymous activity centered around events called Labyrinths. These events focused on using artificial light and mechanical movement to explore optical effects. During this time, Le Parc also conducted his own experiments with light, creating his first mobiles from small Plexiglas pieces, connected and suspended from the ceiling. He also created light-based works using projectors to play with rhythms of light and sound. In 1966, he received the Grand Prize in Painting at the 33rd Venice Biennale.
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He was born on September 23rd 1928 in the city of Mendoza, to a working-class family. At thirteen, he and his mother came to Buenos Aires, and he prepared to enter the Escuela de Bellas Artes while also working in a handbag factory to contribute to the family budget.
He left art school in 1947, disappointed with the education that he received there and studied Concrete art and the spatialism of Lucio Fontana. Around 1954, he approached an experimental theatre group and entered the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes where he participated in the student movements. There, he met Martha, who was to become his wife.
In 1958, he was awarded a scholarship by the French Cultural Service and the travelled to Paris. There, he met art dealer Denise René and artists such as Vasarely, Vantongerloo and François Morellet. Later, together with Francisco Sobrino, he experimented with visual instability regarding sequences and progressions and with the possibilities of light images.
In 1960, he founded the GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel) together with Hugo Demarco, F. García Miranda
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Julio Le Parc
Argentinian artist resident in Paris. Born at Mendoza in the Argentine. Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires; became interested in the group Arte Concreto-Invención and Fontana's Spazialismo movement. Went to Paris with Sobrino in 1958 on a French government scholarship and settled there. In reaction against tachisme, took as starting-point the work of Vasarely, the writings of Mondrian and the tradition of Constructivism; began in 1959 to make geometrical abstractpaintings based on predetermined systems, first in black and white, then in colour. Co-founder with Morellet, Sobrino, Yvaral and others of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel 1960. In 1960 made his first reliefs and his first 'Continual Mobiles', carrying his research into three dimensions, and introducing movement and light. Further types of light work from 1962 incorporating moving projected or reflected lights, pulsating lights etc., and from 1964 works based on distorting mirrors, the displacement of the spectator and so on. Increasing interest in the active invo
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