Jess Soto in Conversation with Ariel Jimnez

Venezuelas primary exponent of Kinetic and Op art, Jess Soto (19232005) is one of the most important Latin American artists of the twentieth century. Here, in conversations with Ariel Jimnez, Soto recounts his childhood in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; his first encounters with painting; his unending search for thinking time and space as dimensions beyond pictorial representation; and the development of his ideas that finally lead him to the creation of his famous Penetrables, large kinetic sculptures through which the viewer walks. This volume is a revised and expanded edition of Conversaciones con Jess Soto (2001), which served as the inspiration for the Fundacin Cisneros Conversaciones/ Conversations series.