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Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005)
Lot 28PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EMIEL DE HANTSETTERS

Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005)

Horizontal con rosa

Fermé5 November 2014

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Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005)
Horizontal con rosa
signed, titled and dated '"HORIZONTAL CON ROSA" SOTO 1974' (on the reverse)
oil on panel with metal rods and nylon string
61.5 x 100.5 x 24.5 cm.
Executed in 1974

Galerie Denise René, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Emiel De Hantsetters in 1975.

Note du spécialiste

'I worked terribly hard on the problem of the presence of time in art; how to render it perceptible: here I had discovered an element which had to be developed. [...] Gradually, I began suspending certain elements between the plexiglass and the opaque background, both of them striated. It became obvious that their movement could be integrated with optical vibrations: I then began to use these suspended objects which you know; "immaterial curves," rods etc which, through the phenomenon of displacement, disappear, to be perceived merely as vibrations.'
(Jesús Rafael Soto quoted in: Soto: a retrospective exhibition, exh.cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1974, p.16)