Photographs by Corrado Serra.
“The Illusive Eye is about illusions—those we see and feel when we look at Op and kinetic art and those experienced by the curators and art historians of these movements. The perceptual play of things seen and unseen provides us with a model for understanding the relative invisibility of Latin American artists in past surveys of Op art.” — Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Executive Director, El Museo and exhibition curator
Exhibition entrance. Left: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie 321- B, 1967, Triptych. Right: Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama), #B-115, 1964
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Left: Wojciech Fangor, M1, 1969. Center: Eduardo Mac Entyre, Seis Formas en Dos Circunferencias (Six Forms in Two Circumferences), 1966. Right: Eduardo Mac Entyre, Pintura Generativa Transparencias, 1965
Karen Hewitt, Motorized Construction (Construcción motorizada), 1962-68
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Left: Richard Anuskiewicz, Union of the four (Unión de los cuatro), 1963 and Luis Tomasello, Atmosphère chromoplastique no. 281, 1971
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Left: Tony Bechara, 125 Colors, 1979. Center: Jesús Rafael Soto, Cubo y Extensión, 1972. Right: Victor Vasarely, Napaura, 1975-78
Center: (detail) Jesús Rafael Soto, Cubo y Extensión, 1972
Center right: Frank Stella, Tetuan II, 1964. Right: Edgar Negret, Navegante (Cabo Kennedy), 1964
Left: Alejandro Otero, Coloritmo 34 (Color-rhythm 34), 1957-1958. Center: Norberto Gómez, Sin título, 1967. Right: Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), Boceto para escultura en el edificio del Banco Industrial de Venezuela, 1961
Front: Edgar Negret, Navegante (Cabo Kennedy), 1964
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Front: Leroy Lamis, Construction No.169, 1969
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Martha Boto, Optique Helicoidial (Mouvement), 1967
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Left: Jesús Rafael Soto, Escritura Hurtado (Hurtado Writing). Right: Antonio Asis, 8 circulos blancos, 8 circulos negros, 1969
Jesús Rafael Soto (b.1923, d.2005), Escritura Hurtado (Hurtado Writing), 1975
Left: Abraham Palatnik, Objeto Cinetico CK-8, 1966/ 2005
Front: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Transchromie, 1965/ 2009
Installation view of “The Illusive Eye”. Photo by Corrado Serra
Left: Freddy Rodríguez, Problema de estado III, 1974. Center: Mario Carreño, Untitled, 1954. Right: Hélio Oiticica, Relevo Espacial 3, 1959/ 1991