Martha Boto

Original Signed Artworks & Limited Edition Prints For Sale

Argentine artist Martha Boto is best known for her innovative kinetic and optical art. She studied art in Buenos-Aires at the National Academy of Fine Arts and was one of the founder members of the Non-Figurative Argentine Artist Group. She was the first artist from her country ever to work in kinetic art. Martha Boto first began to construct moving artworks in the form of suspended mobiles made with Plexiglas.

« I have always been fascinated by the laws of harmony and equilibrium which govern the cosmos through interrelations of light and movement, space, time and color. »
Martha Boto

Déplacement Optique A

Sculpture / Object - Acrylic Sculpture

EUR 6,000

Her work in this area played a big part in the development of kinetic and optical art. She went on to explore the qualities of various reflective and light absorbing materials, including stainless steel and aluminum, which she used to create works involving movement, illumination, color and the distortion of light. After Boto moved to Paris in 1959 with her partner, the artist Gregorio Verdanega, her work was part of an international exhibition of Constructive Abstract Art. She continued to develop movement in her art and in 1964 Martha Boto created the first ever kinetic light-boxes by using electrical mechanisms to project light onto moving surfaces. Light played an increasing role in her art, by transforming objects through reflections from multiple mirrors and shiny metal surfaces plac Read More

Argentina / female artist / Kinetic art / Latin American Art / Op Art / Light and Space / Geometric Abstract art

ARTWORKS BY Martha Boto

Martha Boto

Déplacement Optique D, 1969

Sculpture / Object

Object

EUR 6,000

Martha Boto

Déplacement Optique A, 1969

Sculpture / Object

Acrylic Sculpture

EUR 6,000

Martha Boto

2 Demi Cones Avec Anneaux De Couleurs, 1975

Sculpture / Object

Acrylic Sculpture

EUR 3,500

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Deplacement optique B, 1969

Sculpture / Object

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Latin American Art is a style which takes inspiration from its culture, society, politics, native traditions, religions and landscape. Op-Art and Kinetic Art figure prominently in Latin artworks. Colors in Latin American compositions are often bold. Latin American artists work in all media and movements.

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