Pérez Art Museum Miami Museum Circle members are invited for an exclusive preview of the new special exhibition, Julio Le Parc: Form into Action. Join us for live entertainment, cocktails and bites as we celebrate the opening.
Art Fair pass pit pick up
Museum Circle members in attendance are welcome to pick up their art fair pass kits for Miami Art Week. Art fair pass kits are an exclusive benefit for Museum Circle members. One kit per household membership. Contents of kit may vary.
About the artist
Born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina, Julio Le Parc attended the Escuela de Bella Artes in Buenos Aires in 1943. A student of Lucio Fontana when the White Manifesto was published in 1946, Le Parc became interested concepts of a “spatialist art” as well the ideas of the Argentine based group Arte Concreto- Invención. Le Parc rapidly became engaged with the flourishing avant-garde scene. In reaction to the repressive dictatorship of Juan Perón, the artist dropped out of school returning only after the dictator’s fall in 1955. Upon his return, Le Parc took a leadership role as an artist-advocate joining the university’s students’ organization Federación Universitaria Argentina, a major force of militant government opposition. Victor Vasarely’s 1958 exhibition in Buenos Aries became an important catalyst for Le Parc’s departure for Paris that year. Awarded a scholarship, Le Parc pursued collaborative work with fellow followers of Vasarely and co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) in 1960. Representing Argentina at the 1966 Venice Biennale, Le Parc won the Grand International Prize for Painting as an individual artist. Although the group dissolved in 1968, Le Parc continued to work simultaneously as an individual artist and as part of international collaboratives, particularly those involved in politically denouncing totalitarian regimes. Le Parc’s participation in the May 1968 Paris uprising and union rallies led to his expulsion from France for a period of a year. Upon his return to Paris, Le Parc became an important conduit between activist Latin American artists and the Paris art scene, most specifically through the Paris publication ROBHO, for which he covered the events of Tucumán Arde in Argentina. Le Parc’s works have been the subject of numerous solo shows in Europe and Latin America, including Instituto di Tella (Buenos Aires), the Museo de Arte Moderno (Caracas), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Casa de las Americas (Havana), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Daros (Zürich), Städtische Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf) and more recently at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
