ASCASO GALLERY IN MIAMI EXHIBITS GLOWING REVELATIONS: THE RELIEFS OF LUIS TOMASELLO
This is the third solo show devoted to Luis Tomasello, and it highlights a selection of some thirty seminal Atmosphères chromoplastiques, Objets plastiques and Lumières noires spanning nearly forty years of creative activity, from 1976 to 2012.
“I start from an idea and sometimes the result surprises even me and is valued more than I anticipated. May the viewer receive it with the same simplicity.”
Luis Tomasello was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1915. At the age of 36 he visited Europe for the first time and six years later, in 1957, made Paris his permanent home. It was there, in 1958, that he created his first kinetic relief works which he entitled Réflexion. Later the art critic and poet Carlo Belloli, in the catalogue of the second solo exhibtion at the Galerie Denise René in 1965, renamed them Atmosphères mobiles chromoplastiques.
Throughout his lifetime, Luis Tomasello’s international reputation grew; from these first solo exhibitions staged in 1962 at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Buenos Aires and the Galerie Denise René in Paris, to his participation in every major international event devoted to lumino-kinetic art.
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Luis Tomasello - Atmosphère chromoplastique No 1019, 2012 - Acrylic on wood - 54 x 60 x 6 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
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Luis Tomasello - Atmosphère chromoplastique No 1005, 2012 - Acrylic on wood - 47 x 47 x 10 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
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Luis Tomasello - Lumière noire No 700, 1991 - Acrylic on wood - 122 × 122 × 8 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
Tomasello has works in many major public and private collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo; the Museum of Fine Arts – MFAH in Houston; and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation – CIFO in Miami. In Europe, the Musée national d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French national library), the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (Netherlands), the Tate Modern in London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid all hold works of his, as do numerous museums in Argentina: the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos ires and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Buenos Aires, among others. He also produced a large number of architecturally integrated works both in Europe and the Americas before his death in Paris in 2014.
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Luis Tomasello - Lumière Noire N 968, 2010 - Acrylic on Wood - 52 × 52 × 6 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
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Luis Tomasello - Atmosphère Chromoplastique No 946, 2010 - Acrylic on Wood - 105 × 105 × 8 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
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Luis Tomasello - Atmosphère Chromoplastique No 733, 1993 - Acrylic on Wood - 85 × 85 × 6 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
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Luis Tomasello - Lumière Noire N 786, 1996 - Acrylic on Wood - 31 × 31 × 4 cm. © Jean-Louis Losi
“’With the minimum, achieve the maximum’ was the principle Mondrian left me, and I have worked with it all my life. My objets plastiques or atmosphères chromoplastiques unite sculpture and painting in a single idiom and permit their integration into architecture.”
Glowing revelations: The reliefs of Luis Tomasello
Until July, 31st
Ascaso Gallery
1325 NE 1st Ave Miami FL. 33132
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