Rogelio Polesello, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Argentinian sculptor and painter
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Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Rogelio Polesello
- Rogelio Polesello (26 July 1939 – 6 July 2014) was an Argentine painter, muralist and sculptor.
- He was best known for making Op art (or optical art) known in Latin America.
- He won two Konex Awards; one in 1982 and another in 2012.
- He was born in Buenos Aires.Rogelio Polesello studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, both in Buenos Aires.
- In 1959, he joined the Asociación Arte Nuevo, founded by Aldo Pellegrini and Carmelo Arden Quin.
- The paintings he included in his first solo exhibition at the GalerÃa Peuser (Buenos Aires, 1959) followed the aesthetics of Op Art and were based on Gestalt theories.
- Their geometric forms, generally in black and white, added to or subtracted from the whole according to perceptive principles that produced specific optical effects. Polesello died from a heart attack on 6 July 2014 in Buenos Aires.
- He was 75.
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