It is forbidden not to participate. South American Artists in Europe and the diffusion of kinetic art (1950/60)

Authors

  • Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto Universidade de Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2016.119068

Keywords:

kinetic art, spectator participation, European art circuit

Abstract

This article discuss the reception, in 1960s London and Paris, given to the work of four South American artists (Sérgio Camargo, Lygia Clark, Jesús Rafael Soto and Julio Le Parc), who all lived in Europe at the time and whose work was related to kineticism and was exhibited and commented on in the same spaces. I shall therefore discuss the role of certain cultural agents who served as interlocutors for these artists in a plural and cosmopolitan environment. I shall also address the circulation and impact of their works based on analysis of publications made at the time, particularly in specialist magazines. This article relates to the research I have developed as a visiting academic at the University of the Arts, London, with a grant from FAPESP, and at the INHA, Paris, in 2015, as chercheur invité

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Author Biography

  • Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto, Universidade de Campinas
    é professora Livre-Docente do Instituto de Artes da UNICAMP

Published

2016-07-15

Issue

Section

Multimedia

How to Cite

Couto, M. de F. M. (2016). It is forbidden not to participate. South American Artists in Europe and the diffusion of kinetic art (1950/60). ARS, 14(27), 204-223. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2016.119068