THE T OF JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO IN CAYÓN

From 10/09/2024 to 11/01/2024
Madrid, Spain

Jesús Rafael Soto (Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1923-Paris, France, 2005) carried out several investigations during the 1960s on possible solutions to face the fragmentation that his language needed. From those explorations emerged the T, a fine, metallic element of simple purity that allowed him to access, with satisfaction, to that disintegration he pursued and to reach a certain sensation of vibration and sublime volatility thanks to the linear disposition of these elements and their uniform arrangement that ended up giving the work a certain mediation between the spectator and the space and movement.

THE T OF JESÚS RAFAEL SOTO IN CAYÓN

Cayón, in Madrid, presents an exhibition that specifically gathers several works by the Venezuelan artist that revolve around, incorporate or are built on this technical element. Thus, Soto, la T goes beyond the mere exhibition of works that can portray a holistic vision of his oeuvre and delves into an exhibition of an aesthetic, technical and academic nature on one of his periods and recognizable elements.

 

The fourteen pieces that make up the tour are distributed in two spaces and are intended to show the plastic result that the artist achieved with the incorporation of his T and their positive result in that search that allowed him to capture the titilation and the play of light. In addition, as a point of an essential and pivotal object of the exhibition, is exhibited, for the first time, what is considered the first T, made in 1961, which emerges in the form of a small stump in which the metallic solution is incorporated at a right angle, a nail that, at the beginning and by means of a wire, manages to distance itself from the background by means of a wire that, over time, will be replaced by applicable thin metal.

Soto, la T can be seen until November 1 at Galería Cayón, Blanca de Navarra 7 y 9, Madrid (Spain).

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