Antonio Asis is an Argentine painter, an exponent of Op Art

Op art

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions."Optical art is a method of painting concerning the interaction between illusion and picture plane, between understanding and seeing." Op art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made...

. His works were presented at the Paris Biennale (1967) and in Casa de Cultura de Grenoble (1968).

Biography

From 1946 to 1950 he attended the Escuela National de Belles Artes in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina. In 1956 he arrived in Paris

Paris

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 and immediately befriended the Denise Rene

Denise René

Denise René is a French gallerist.In 1955 she organized the exhibition Le Mouvement, which helped to popularize kinetic art.In 2001, the Centre Georges Pompidou paid homage to her with an exhibition titled "Denise René, une galerie dans l'aventure de l'art abstrait. 1944-1978".- External links :*...

 group of artists such as Jesus Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.He was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He began his artistic career as a boy painting cinema posters in his native city...

, Pol Bury

Pol Bury

Pol Bury was a Belgian sculptor who began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco....

, and Agam

Agam

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. Asis was one of the first Argentines to arrive in Paris, and started working in his typical style of 'interference' works like the Interferences concentriques paintings and his Interference sculptures with a metal grille.

There is a strong group of Argentinian artists (Antonio Asis, Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

, Louis Tomasello) as well as a strong group of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n artists (Soto

Soto

Sōtō Zen , or is, with Rinzai and Ōbaku, one of the three most populous sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism.The Sōtō sect was first established as the Caodong sect during the Tang Dynasty in China by Dongshan Liangjie in the 9th century, which Dōgen Zenji then brought to Japan in the 13th century...

, Carlos Cruz-Diez

Carlos Cruz-Díez

Carlos Cruz-Diez is a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist. He lives in Paris. He has spent his professional career working and teaching between both Paris and Caracas. His work is represented in museums and public art sites internationally...

, Dario Perez-Flores, Narciso Debourg

Narciso Debourg

Narciso Debourg is a Venezuelan sculptor.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Spanish Wikipedia....

) working with the possibilities of vision, movement, and light.

External links

Gallery Mike-Art-Kunst