(Mendoza, Argentina, 1928)
Julio Le Parc was born in the city of Mendoza in 1928. At the age of thirteen is set in Buenos Aires with his family. Two years later entered the School of Fine Arts, where he became interested in the ideas of the art concrete and by the work of Lucio Fontana. In 1947 he abandons the studies and approaches to anarchism and marxism. By 1954 she joined the Superior School of Fine Arts and in 1958, he traveled to Paris on a grant by the Cultural Service of the French. In this city comes in contact with the artists Victor Vasarely, Georges Vantongerloo and François Morellet, among others. Interested in the proposals of optical art and by the Gestalt theory, begins his experiences optical in paintings that present sequences progressive forms, positions and colors, leading to instability visual.
In 1960 integrates in Paris Research group on Visual Art (GRAV) along with Horacio Demarco, Francisco García Miranda, Horacio Garcia Rossi, François Molnar, François Morellet, Sergio Moyano Servanes, Francisco Sobrino, Jöel Stein and Jean-Pierre Yvaral. In this period, Le Parc continued their investigations, doing small light boxes with manual movement that changes image and color and, in addition, created their first mobile, illuminated with indirect light, and flush, projecting its shadow on screens to curved and flat. In 1966 he received the Grand International Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale and presented his first retrospective at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires. During the French May, after their participation in the Workshop Popular Posters, leaves Paris and travels to several countries in Europe. After his return to the French capital, the GRAV is dissolved and Le Parc produces some of the texts of analysis, such as Demystify the art (1968).
