Shifting Planes: Op Explorations in Latin American Abstraction

Nedo, Julio le Parc, Omar Rayo, Francisco Salazar, Jesús Rafael Soto, Luis Tomasello

Leon Tovar Gallery presents Shifting Planes: Op Explorations in Latin American Abstraction, an exhibition spotlighting kinetic and optical experimentations.

Shifting Planes traces a transition in Latin American art from static form to groundbreaking kinetics. Featured artworks from the 1960s-1980s showcase the artists’ redefinition of abstraction through interactivity, light, movement, and perceptual challenges. From Le Parc’s rotating sculptural mobiles to Soto’s flickering, dematerializing installations, the exhibition celebrates daring artistic expansions that asserted Latin America’s role in global vanguard movements.

The artists in Shifting Planes collaborated internationally, exhibiting in seminal kinetic art shows worldwide. Today, their works reside in prestigious public and private collections across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Malba Museum, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; among many others.