Antonio Asis

The Drawing Room is pleased to present works by Antonio Asis from June 27 through July 28.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1932, Antonio Asis embarked on a life in art at age 14 when he enrolled in Argentina’s Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. Later, at the Escuela de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Asis studied composition and principles of design with Héctor Cartier. Buenos Aires was an important site for the development of post-war abstraction, and in 1944 the publication of Arturo magazine and the creation of the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención provided a significant boon to the cultural climate. With this foundation and subsequent explorations in abstraction, in 1956 Asis moved to Paris. There he quickly aligned himself with an international community of kinetic and optical artists that included Jean Tinguely, Yaacov Agam, Victor Vasarely and Jesús Rafael Soto. Invigorated by concepts associated with geometric abstraction, dynamic motion, and the phenomenon of perception, Asis embarked on a meticulous and lifelong study of the relationships between light, color, movement and sensory illusion.

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