Gyula Kosice : intergaláctico / [edición : Maria Amalia García, Mari Carmen Ramírez ; traducción de Alicia Di Stasio, Héctor Olea].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosice, Gyula, 1924-2016, artist.

Contributor:

García, Maria Amalia, editor.

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, editor.

Di Stasio, Alicia, translator.

Olea, Héctor, translator.

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, issuing body, host institution.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kosice, Gyula, 1924-2016--Criticism and inerpretation.

Kosice, Gyula.

Kosice, Gyula, 1924-2016--Exhibitions.

Artists--Argentina--20th century--Exhibitions.

Artists.

Physical Description:

360 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Intergaláctico

Place of Publication:

Buenos Aires : MALBA Houston : Museum of Fine Arts, 2024.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

One hundred years after his birth, Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic celebrates the career of the Argentine artist Gyula Kosice (b. 1924, Košice, Czechoslovakia; d. 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina), an experimental artist, sculptor, poet, and theorist. Co-founder of Arturo (1944) and Madí (1946), two constructive art groups that were centered in the Río de la Plata region between Uruguay and Argentina, he was also a prominent figure in the international avant-garde after 1945. His practice introduced original artistic ideas, such as interactive sculptures, which questioned the relationship between the art object and the spectator and experimented with a wide range of materials, many of which had never been used in art before. Like Julio Le Parc and Carlos Cruz-Diez, he incorporated light and motion yet, was one of the first to incorporate water in his works. Intergalactic focuses on his experimental production, in which motion was a constant and essential feature. It includes works that he created between 1950 and 1980, such as acrylic sculptures, kinetic reliefs, and drops of water, most of which incorporated lights and were activated by aerators and motors. The exhibition features Gyula Kosice's most ambitious work acquired by the MFAH in 2019, The Hydrospatial City (1946-2004), an experiential installation comprised of architectural prototypes that speculate on the possibility of human settlement beyond Earth brought on by socioeconomic inequality, environmental degradation, and astronomical population growth. As an alternative, he proposed a city of semi-open, modular habitats suspended 5000 feet above the ground and powered by oxygen and hydrogen harnessed from water vapor in the clouds.

Contents:

Presentación Malba / Eduardo F. Costantini

Presentación MFAH / Gary Tinterow

Introducción / María Amalia García, Mari Carmen Ramírez

Plástico y plasticidad en el espacio / Mari Carmen Ramírez

Cuerpo de agua: De la invención madí a la invención erótica / María Amalia García

Obras en exhibición

Dar una forma a una hidrovida: El plástico en la expansión de las propuestas artísticas de Kosice / Isabel Plante

Casi aquí: La política del tiempo en la Edad del Plástico / Charlotte Matter

La poética hidroespacial: Habitantes, hábitats, hábitos / Héctor Olea

La ciudad hidroespacial: Un desafío a la ciudad funcional / Giovanna M. Bassi Cendra

La ciudad hidroespacial

Cronología / Ayelen Pagnanelli, Max Pérez Fallik

Lista de obras.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Gyula Kosice : Intergaláctico", held July 5 to November 4, 2024 at the MALBA.

"Organizada en coordinación con The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)" --page [356].

Contains:

Container of : Kosice, Gyula, 1924-2016. La ciudad hidroespacial.

Container of : Kosice, Gyula, 1924-2016. La ciudad hidroespacial. English.

ISBN:

9786319068108

6319068108

OCLC:

1517273870