LE PARC, Julio

An Argentine who held off going to Paris until 1958, Le Pare joined several groups working with optical abstraction and kineticism, including Groupe de Recherche d'art Visuel, commonly known as GRAV. His art developed static surface patterns that generated radically different appearances if viewed from different angles, which is to say that it offers not one principal look but several, all of them equally legitimate. Le Pare also made reliefs of different materials that rotated at various speeds...