Francisco Sobrino

Francisco Sobrino

Francisco Sobrino (* 1932 in Guadalajara , Spain ; † May 10, 2014 in Brittany , France ) was a Spanish- Argentinian sculptor , object artist and kinetic artist who lived and worked in Paris . Along with Julio Le Parc , François Morellet , Horacio Garcia Rossi , Joël Stein and Yvaral, he was one of the co-founders of the group of artists Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV) in 1960 .

life and work

Francisco Sobrino's family lived in Alicante for some time in 1936 during the first months of the Spanish Civil War . They move to Madrid and finally emigrate to Argentina in 1949, where the family lived until 1958.

In Buenos Aires , Sobrino studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires , where he met Julio Le Parc and Horacio Garcia Rossi. He starts working as a sculptor. In 1959 he went to Paris. As a light and object artist, he begins to work with like-minded people in the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel .

Francisco Sobrino Kunst focuses on sculpture in geometric abstraction.

His works are (among others) part of the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Guggenheim collection in Venice , the state collections in Paris ; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid .

Francisco Sobrino took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world as part of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel and later as an individual artist. This included, among other things, participation in documenta III in Kassel in 1964 in the Light and Movement department .

Literature and Sources

• documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
• Harald Kimpel, Karin Stengel: documenta III 1964 - International Exhibition - A photographic reconstruction (series of publications from the documenta archive). Bremen 2005, ISBN 978-3-86108-528-7 .