Antonio Asis

Background

Antonio Asis was born in 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Education

From 1946 to 1950, Antonio Asis attended at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón Fine Art School in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Career

Asis moved from Buenos Aires to Paris in 1956, where he joined a community of kinetic and optical artists. Among others, he befriended Yaacov Agam, Nicolas Schöffer, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and Victor Vasarely. In the 1960s, he began studying the phenomena of light and color, working for a short time on photograms, as well as making paintings and three-dimensional objects.

Throughout the 1960’s, Asis exhibited regularly across Europe, and in 1970, his first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Krebs, in Bern, Switzerland. Since then, he has continued to produce his evocative abstract works from his studio in Paris. In 2015 Freijo Gallery showed a Asis’s solo exhibition "Circulos Cromaticos". He works and lives in Paris.

Achievements

• Antonio Asis is an outstanding painter. He was featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, including: DYNAMO: A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (2013), etc.
  
  His 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.

Works

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  • Untitled (Interférences polychromes)

    1956

  • Untitled

    1956

  • Untitled

    1959

  • Untitled

    1959

  • Untitled

    1959

  • Untitled

    1960

  • Untitled

    1960

  • Interférences en bleu et jaune (No. 642)

    1963

  • Interférences en rouge et gris (No. 640)

    1963

  • Vibration couleur

    1965

  • Interférences polychromes (No. 636)

    1968

  • Círculo rojo y amarillo

    1970

  • Mobile cinéthique

    1970

  • Vibration couleur

    1970

  • Untitled

    1974

  • Carre bleu et noir

    1980

  • Cercle rouge et noir

    1980

  • 4 - cuadrados 4 - círculos

  • Composition in red

Membership

Antonio Asis was the co-founder of Groupe Position, a collective of Argentine artists in Paris who were dedicated to kinetic experimentation.

Connections

Friend:

Yaakov Agam

Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist. He is best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.

Friend:

Nicolas Schöffer

Nicolas Schöffer was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist.

Friend:

Jesús-Rafaël Soto

Friend:

Jean Tinguely

Friend:

Victor Vasarely