“Movement was the ideal solution… and when I saw that light could offer me a solution and at the same time enable me to continue with my investigations, I concentrated on that theme.”
- Julio Le Parc
Julio Le Parc (b. 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina; lives and works in France) is an Argentinian artist renowned for his pioneering works of Kinetic and Op Art. His experiments with geometric abstraction, light, and perception in the 1950s and 1960s helped establish and define both movements. Le Parc’s diverse practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and more. He manipulates chromatic colors, negative space, and subtle plays of light and shadow to depict labyrinthine spaces and optical illusions, often creating works that appear to vibrate or literally comprise moving parts.
Best known for using projected, moving and reflected light to create artworks in constant flux, Le Parc embraces concepts of visual instability and perspective alteration. At the heart of his practice is a desire to experiment with the viewer's engagement and perception, thereby reexamining the traditional roles of the artist, spectator and art institution. His pioneering use of kineticism and viewer interaction reveals a career-long commitment to exploring art's utopian possibilities.