Conversaciones con Jesús Soto =

the long version

"This set of interviews, patiently woven together over the course of several years, offers us an exceptional opportunity to understand the work and thought of one of the most substantial abstract artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In these conversations, Jesus Soto devoted himself to the always difficult task of remembering, in order to reconstruct the essential moments of a long and fruitful artistic career - from his simple childhood in the ancient city of Angostura - modern Ciudad Bolivar - in the southeast of Venezuela, to the development of kineticism in Paris in the 1950s and '60s." "Soto's first encounters with painting, his efforts to create an independent artistic practice that could speak to us of the world, of space, and of time beyond pictorial representation, made him a witness to and an extraordinary participant in some of the most fascinating artistic adventures of the Latin American twentieth century. At the same time, they demonstrate his deep and vital connection with the long history of Western art."--Jacket.