Antonio Asís b. 1932 Buenos Aires, Argentina Antonio Asís began studying art at the National School of Fine Arts when he was 14 and subsequently at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón Fine Art School. Throughout the 1940s, Asís explored abstraction and nonrepresentational art in Buenos Aires. In the spring of 1956, Asís moved to Paris, where he quickly became part of an international circuit of kinetic artists; among others Jesús-Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and Victor Vasarely. Surrounded by this dynamic and aspirational group, he began a series of work in which he considered how the phenomena of light could be mediated through photography. Shortly afterward, he began to study vibrations between colours and the many possibilities within monochromatic compositions. Throughout the 1960s, Asís exhibited regularly across Europe and in 1971, he co-founded the artist group Position with Argentine artists living in Paris who were interested in movement, light and kinetic experimentations. Since then, he has continued to produce his evocative abstract works from his studio in Paris, and he has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. Asís works are in major institutional collections, including the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami; Musée National d Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano (MACLA), Argentina; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. "The trajectory of Antonio Asis is in itself a summary of the history of optical-kinetic art," Arnauld Pierre, philosopher and writer observed, and in the artist's early inquiries into the limits and nature of visual perception we see already the sophistication of his understanding of colour and space. Asis continues to live and work in Paris.
Curriculum Vitae Education 1950 Escuela National de Belles Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Individual exhibitions (Selection) 2015 The Drawing Room, 12 Sept. 26 Oct 2015 East Hampton, New York 2014 Antonio Asís: Geometría libre (Works from the 60 s), Sicardi Gallery. Houston, Texas, USA. RCM Galerie,. En Blanco y Negro, KaBe Contemporary, Miami, USA Antonio Asís The Drawing Room East Hampton NY, USA (in cooperation with Sicardi Gallery) Pohyb, pohub! Galeria Petr Zaloudek. Prague, Czeck Republic Miami Art Basel with Sicardi Gallery Cículos Cromáticos. Gallery Freijo. Madrid, Spain Antonio Asís. Espace Meyer Zafra. Paris,. Del color a la emoción, Antonio Asis. Curator: Osbel Suarez. Galeria KaBe. Miami, USA 2012 Antonio Asís Un Universo Vibrante, MUNTREF Museo Nacional de la Universidad Tres de Febrero. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2009 Galeria Nerry Mariño. Homenaje a Antonio Asís, Espace Meyer Zafra.. North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas. USA 2007 Chromatic energies, Sicardi Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1995 Expression visualle, Galleria Arte Struktura, Milan, Itay Expression visualle, Galeria Claude Dorval. 1984 Centre de Recherche Artistique Contemporaine, Verifica 8+, Venice, Italy. 1983 Galerie J. & J. Donguy. Galleria d Arte Santostefano, Sarnico, Italy 1975 Galleria la Polena, Genova, Italy 1972 Maison de la Culture. Rennes,. 1971 Estudio Actual. Caracas, Venezuela 1970 Galerie Krebs. Bern, Switzerland
Collective exhibitions (Selection) 2016 Sculpture/Vision, Galeria Sicardi, Houston, USA 2015 La Patinoire royle. Brussels, Belgium Dynamo. Un siècle de lumiere et de mouvement dans l art. 1913-. En Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, Fundacio Stampfli. Spain. 2012 Real/Virtual, Arte Cinético argentino de los años sesenta, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2011 Les sites de l abstraction latino-americaine - Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Haus Kons truktiv. Zurich, Switzerland. Art cinetique, Espace Meyer Zafra. Paris,. Asís/Esmeraldo/Espinosa/Lizarraga, Works on Paper, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas. 2010 Collage, More and Less, Williams Tower Gallery. Houston, Texas. Papiers, instants geometriques, Galerie Nery Mariño. Geometrie hors limites, art contemporain latino-americain Collection Jean et Colette Cherqui. Maison de l Amerique Latine. Los Sitios de Abstracción latinoamericana, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo de Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 2009 Blancs et couleurs, Espace Meyer Zafra. Paris, Frrance. 2007 Los Cinéticos, (MNCARS) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain. 2006 Op Art, Joyce, Palais Royal. 2004 Antonio Asís et Horacio García Rossi, Galerie Claude Dorval. 1984 3eme Biennale de l Estampe, Forum des Cholettes, Sarcelles,. Percezione e Costruzione, Centro Culturale. Rondottanta, Italy Classicitá dell astrattismo, Studio f.22, Brescia, Italy 1983 Biennale méditerranéenne d art contemporain, Palazzo Provincia di Catanzaro, Italia. Mundial, Galliata Arte Contemporanea. Savone, Italy. 100 artistes de Amérique Latine, Centre Culture de Compiégne; Maison de la Culture d Amiens,. 7eme Biennale d Art Contemporain. San Martino di Lupari. Padova, Italy 1982 Kunstler aus Lateinamerika, Daadgalerie. Berlin, Germany Mouvances, Galerie d Art Contemporain. L Amérique latine a Paris, Grand Palais..
1975 L Oeil en Question. Centre Culturel d Arras. 1974 Salon Grands et Jeunes d Aujourd hui. Grand Palais.. 1973 Salon Grands et Jeunes d Aujourd hui. Grand Palais.. 1972 Salon Grands et Jeunes d Aujord hui, Grand Palais.. Grupo Position, Barcelona, Spain Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Sevilla, Spain. 1971 Galerie de la Résidence Empain with the Gallery Fracoise Mayer and the Galerie Withofs, Brussels, Belgium Centre Commercial La Belle Epine. Paris,. Salon Grands et Jeunes d Aujourd hui.. Grupo Position, Galleria Sincron. Brescia, Italy Grupo Position, Galerie Sen. Madrid, Spain. Exposición Latinoamericana. Barcelona, Spain Latin Amerika Skandinavia, Kunsternes Hus. Oslo, Norway Latin Amerika Gentofte Kunstvenner, Charlottenlund; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; Konsthallen, Goteborg, Sweden 1970 Salon Grands et Jeunes d Aujourd hui, Salles Wilson. 1969 Ideatori Plastici, Artestudio Macerata. Italy 1968 Cinétisme, Spectacle. Environment. Maison de la Culture. Grenoble,. Triade 68, Musée Municipal, Les Sables d Olonne.. 1967 Kinetism and Slow-Motion, Art Department, Douglas College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. USA Exposition d art cinetique, Centre Culturel. Toulouse,. Lumiere et mouvement. Musée d Art Moderne de la Ville de. Kinetika, Museum des 20 Jahrhundert. Vienna, Austria. Von Konstruktivism zur Kinetik, Galerie Denise Rene/Hans Mayer. Krefeld, Germany. Biennale de Paris, Musee d Art Moderne.. Studio2B. Bergamo, Italia Art et mouvement, Musee d Art Contemporain. Montreal, Canada 1966 Licht und Bewegung, Kunsthalle. Dusseldorf, Germany Sigma II, Galerie des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux, 1965 Art and Movement, Diploma Galleries, Edinburgh; Art Gallery and Museum. Glasgow, Scotland Aspects de la peinture cinetique. Galerie Devray. Objectifs 65, Galerie de la Librairie Anglaise. Licht und Bewegung. Baden, Baden, Germany Realites Nouvelles.
Art et mouvement, Tel-Aviv Museum. Tel- Aviv, Israel Sounding Two, Signals. London, England Mouvement et Lumiere. Bern, Switzerland. Mouvement et Lumiere, Musee des Beaux- Arts. Brussels, Belgium Exhibition of Latin American artists, Musee National d Art Moderne. 1962 Constructivisme, Galerie Dautzengerg.. 30 Argentines de la nouvelle generation, Galerie Greuze.. Festival of Modern Art from Latin America. Center of Advance Creative Studies. London, England. L Aujourd hui de demain. Palais St. Vaast. Arras,. 1955 Salon Municipal, Museo Municipal de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Publications Text: Luis Francisco Perez. Galeria Freijo. Madrid, Spain KaBe Text. Osbel Suarez. Miami, USa 2007 Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas 1995 Expression visuelle, Galleria Arte Struktura. Milan, Italy Expression visuelle, Galeria Claude Dorval. 1983 Galerie J & J. Donguy.. 1975 Asis. Galleria la Polena. Genova, Italy 1972 Maison de la Culture. Rennes, 1971 Estudio Actual. Caracas, Venezuela 1970 Galeria Krebs. Bern, Switzerland Catalogues Dynamo. Un siècle de lumiere et de mouvement dans l art. 1913. En Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2012 Antonio Asís Un Universo Vibrante, MUNTREF Museo Nacional de la Universidad Tres de Febrero. Buenos Aires, Argentina 2010 Geometrie hors limites. Art contemporain latino-americain. Collection Jean et Colette Cherqui, Maison de l Amerique Latine. 2005 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Latino- Americano (MACLA). Tribalwerks ediciones. Buenos Aires, Argentina 1997 Alviani, G.; Belloli, C.; Beringheli, G.; Fournier, F.; Massironi, M.; Veca, A. Constructivismo, concretismo, cinevisualismo: Nuova visualita internazionale, Arte Struktura, Milan, Italy. 1986/1987 Annuaire national des Beaux Arts, 1986/1987, Ed. Thibaud, Vol 1.. 1976 Piovanetti, Ch: Asis, Cruz-Diez, Demarco, Sempere, Sobrino. Arcay. Paris and New York 1967 Popper, F.: L Art Cinetique, Gauthier-Villars.