Martha Boto Biography

Martha Boto (1925 - 2004)

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Martha Boto est née en 1925 à Buenos Aires, Argentine. Ayant manifesté très jeune des prédispositions pour le dessin et la peinture, elle fait ses études aux Beaux-Arts de Buenos Aires. Elle obtient le diplôme en 1946, officiellement professeur de dessin. Elle rentre l'année suivante à l'École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts pour approfondir ses connaissances, d'où elle ressort, diplômée, en 1950.

L'année 1954 marquera sa transition vers une abstraction géométrique. Elle intégrera l'association Arte Nuevo en 1956, puis adhèrera l'année suivante le groupe des Artistes Non Figuratils Argentins, et participera à de nombreuses manifestations d'art concret. C'est à cette période qu'elle conçoit ses premiers mobiles, faits de Plexiglas. Martha Boto se fixe à Paris avec son compagnon Grègorio Vardanega en 1959. Elle se lie alors à l'entourage de Denise René, dont la galerie assurera la promotion de son œuvre, à la fois en France et hors de l'hexagone. En 1963, Martha Boto commence à intégrer l'électricité à son travail, produisant dès lors ses premières oeuvres cinétiques. C'est dans la même année qu'elle se rapprochera du mouvement international Nouvelle Tendance, qui oeuvre pour la reconnaissance du cinètisme. L'année suivante, Martha Boto a droit à sa première exposition personnelle, qui a lieu à la Maison des Beaux-Arts, à Paris. Elle commence à y montrer les boîtes lumino-cinétiques, qui deviendront célèbres.

En 1967, elle participe à l'exposition du Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, «Lumière et Mouvement». Une grande rétrospective de son oeuvre est organisée en 1969 à la Galerie Denise René. Dans les années 1970, Martha Boto reviendra doucement à la peinture, tout en voyant l'ensemble de son oeuvre montré à travers le monde.Martha Boto décède à Paris en 2004.

Martha Boto (1925 - 2004)

Martha Boto is born in 1925 in Buenos Aires. Having some predispositions for the drawing and painting, she studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Cárcova. She graduated in 1946, and became officially an art teacher.

1954 is the year of her transition to geometrical abstraction. She became a member of the Arte Nuevo association in 1956, and join the A.N.F.A. (No Figurative Argentinian Artists) and she participate to many art concret events. She designed her first mobile in plexiglass during this time. In 1959 she settle down in Paris with her Partner Gregorio Vardanega. Then she became close to the circle of the Denise René gallery, which will guarantee the promotion of her work in France and aboard. In 1963, Martha Boto started to incorporate electricity to her work which produced her first kinetic artworks. The same year she become closer to the Nouvelle Tendance movement and a year after she realised her first personal exhibition at the Maison des Beaux Arts in Paris. She starts to create her famous lumino-cinétique boxes.

In 1967 she participate at the Modern art Museum of Paris exhibition Lumière et Mouvement . In 1969 a big rétrospective of her work take place at the Denise René gallery. And in the 70s Martha Boto will came back to the painting while showing her work all around the world. She died in Paris in 2004.

Text courtesy galerie denise rené.

 
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