Julio LE PARC - Color serigraph, 1977 Color

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.
Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).