Alejandro Otero Begins His Collage Work

Event · South America

Overlapping horizontal and vertical paper strips in black, gray, yellow, red, purple and green, with the source’s color chart and MoMA credit below. — Alejandro Otero, Ortogonal (Collage) 2, 1951. Cut-and-pasted colored paper on cardboard. Alejandro Otero. Courtesy of the Otero Pardo Foundation. Digital Image © 2020 The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. Reproduced by The Art Newspaper, 2022. Image source.

This major Venezuelan kinetic artist and abstract geometric painter began his collage work with found materials inspired by Mondrian. These would lead to one of his significant contributions, Coloritmo (Colorhythms).

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

post.moma.org

People

Alejandro Otero, Piet Mondrian

Movements

kinetic art

Filed under

Ideas: collage, found object, Geometric Abstraction
Technologies: kinetic art
People: Alejandro Otero, Piet Mondrian
Works: Coloritmo
Places: Venezuela

Echoes across time

1970 · Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid
1973 · France Hosts International Computer Art Events
1982 · L’Art et l’ordinateur in Paris

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