Julio LE PARC - Larga Marcha, Bifurcaciones 9 - Signed lithograph

Julio Le Parc : (1928-) is an Argentina-born artist, one of the most famous representant of perceptual and cinetic art. He studied at the National fine art school of Buenos Aires, and moved to Paris in 1958. Leaving behind him the traditional media, he turned to light and its effects, colours, movement, producing cinetic objects. He is one of the co founders of GRAV (Groupe de recherche d'art visuel) with Horacio Garcia Rossi, François Morellet Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein and Yvaral, founded in the 1960's. His first personal exhibition took place at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York in 1966. He won the same year the Great Prize for painting at the Venice Biennal. His first retrospective took place in Dusseldorf in Allemagne in 1972. The Palais de Tokyo in Paris recently made a big retrospective of his work.