Gregorio Vardanega (21 March 1923 – 7 October 2007) was an artist of Italian origins who worked in Argentina and France. Vardanega and
Martha Boto, his companion, created the term "chromocinetism" to describe their artistic research.
Early life
Vardanega was born in
Possagno, Italy.
Vardanega's family migrated to Argentina when he was three years old. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires from 1939 to 1946.
Career
Vardanega at a young age showed enthusiasm for space, questioned its form and its elements, what this achieves in the world.
Gregorio Vardanega inquired in the direction of light, in relation to color, movement and space, adding electronics in his artistic work
He used electric and transparent colors, color spaces, diffraction and light transmission in solid liquids and gases.
Vardanega was a member of Nouvelle Tendance together with Luis Tomasello, Enrico Castellani, Enzo Mari among others, who had as an end in common the exchange and develop projects.
In 1946 Vardanega began working in
acrylic glass
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, and also produced structures using overlapping wires.
In the same year, when he was studying at the National Academy of Fine Arts, he participated in exhibitions in 1946 where he made overlapping glass or plexiglass plates.
In 1948 he traveled to Europe in the company of Carmelo Arden Quin. After exhibiting in the Amerique Latine lounge, she is related to Michael Seuphot, Georges Vantongerloo, Max Bill and others.
Through the 1950s he experimented with
kinetic art, constructing artworks moving and rotating at irregular intervals, which produced abstract patterns through lighting, reflections and shadows.
[ He also made his first luminous sculpture as a result of trying to embody the physical and psychic universe mind. ][ They maintained contact with artists in Buenos Aires, including Eduardo Jonquières and his group "Arte Nuevo", and the artists' group MADI.][
1960 does a work with Plexiglas again, which has small spheres inside that are illuminated by projections of lights. Vardanega explored the field of the discovery of the electro technique of environmental situations using different forms of artistic expression, I believe electronic oscillators in some of his works. ]Denise René
Denise René (born Denise Bleibtreu; June 1913 – 9 July 2012) was a French art gallerist specializing in kinetic art and op art.
Life and work
Denise René took as her guiding principle the idea that art must invent new paths in order to exist ...
. Vardanega had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1964, which established him as an important practitioner of kinetic art.
Honors
He won gold medals at the Exposition of Visual Art in Argentina and at the International and Universal Exposition in Brussels in 1958.
Art Works
Couleurs Sonores, 1963-1979 It is artistic work that for a city planning metropolis of skyscrapers, this was exposed in 2013 but due to its great height could not be exhibited in the place.
Personal life
Vardanega lived in France from 1959 till his death in Paris in 2007.
References
External links
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1923 births
2007 deaths
Op art
Italian artists
Argentine artists
Italian emigrants to Argentina