Gyula Kosice (1924)

Aliases: Gyula Košice

Professions: Object Artist; Sculptor; Painter; Plastic Art

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  Gyula Kosice (B. 1924) , Serie B³, Gota de Agua

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  Untitled (Pintura Madí)

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  GYULA KOSICE (B. 1924)

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Gyula Kosice Biography

(b Kosice, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic], 1924). Argentine sculptor, theorist and poet of Slovak birth. A resident of Argentina from 1928, he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes ‘Manuel Belgrano’ in Buenos Aires, and in 1944 he collaborated with Joaquín Torres García and the Argentine poet Edgar Bayley (1919–90) on the magazine Arturo (one issue only), which proposed geometric abstraction for the first time in Argentina. He was also a leading figure of ARTE MADÍ, together with Carmelo Arden Quin (b 1913). During this period he produced his first articulated mobiles (e.g. Royi , 1944; see Glusberg, p. 73), which involved the active participation of the spectator, and early examples of sculptures made of neon (e.g. Madí Aluminium Structure No. 3 , 1946; see ARGENTINA, fig. 6). Like his colleagues in Arte Madí, he proposed the radical autonomy of the art object, and in his later work he explored the possibilities of a diverse range of materials, including even water in his Hydrosculptures . He won the Torcuato di Tella International Prize in 1962.

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