ST5, 2013

Argentine abstract kinetic artist Antonio Asis lives and works in Paris. In 1950 he obtained his doctorate degree from the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos, where he had been studying art since the age of 14. In 1944 Antonio Asis became involved with the publication of an Argentine arts magazine, Arturo, and he was one of the founder members of an art association in Buenos Aires, which after 1945 was an important city for artists who were involved in the development abstract art. Antonio Asis moved to Paris in 1956, where he first became interested in kinetic artand where be worked alongside other international artists, including Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Jesus Rafael Soto. Antonio Asis started exploring the vibrations between colors and their harmonies and he also made use of monochrome in some of his work. Much of his art focused on the use of spiral, spheres and other geometric shapes as abstract forms. In 1971 Antonio Asis was co-founder of the Position group of ex-pat Argentine artists with an interest in the vibrations and movement of light, who were also working in Paris at that time.