Horacio García-Rossi

The work

Color luz n°10 (Light Color No. 10)
1987
100 x 100 cm
Acrylic on canvas

This work by García-Rossi uses only acrylic paint to represent a ray of light passing through a very narrow, vertical gap in a completely darkened space.
The result is an abstract geometric work in which the line of light divides the canvas into two symmetrical parts. The intense white and the black of the darkness are subtly separated by narrow strips of color whose width follows the rhythm of a Fibonacci series.

The artist

(1929, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 2012, Paríis, França)

García-Rossi left Buenos Aires and settled in Paris in 1959, where he lived until his death. Throughout his career, he always experimented with geometric abstraction in sculptural form and, above all, with optical art and kinetic art, of which he was one of the pioneers.
In 1960, together with other artists, he created the Visual Art Research Group (GRAV), dedicated to the research and dissemination of kinetic art. In the 1980s, he ended his work on installations and light works and returned to painting.