Caracas Sphere by kinematic artist Jesús Soto

Jesús Soto borned in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela on June 5, 1923. He was a Venezuelan artist, an important figure in kinetic art, who began and developed by the end of the 50's.

He studied at the School of Art in Caracas, where he met Carlos Cruz Diez and Alejandro Otero. From the 70's to the 90's, Soto's works are exhibited in places such as the MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Venice Biennial in 1966 and the São Paulo Biennial in 1996.

Soto was particularly famous for his "penetrable" sculptures within which people can walk and interact. It has been said that Soto's art is inseparable from the observer, it can only be complete with the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observation.

A work by Soto adorns the ceiling of the main hall of the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, and another, a part of the interior of the Chacaito subway station in Caracas. The latter extends to the outside of the station and can be seen from the surface, in the Plaza Brión de Chacaíto. The Caracas Sphere is located on the Francisco Fajardo Highway, which was recently rebuilt and the picture showing on the post.

He died at the age of 81, at his residence in Paris, on January 14, 2005. He had decided that his tomb would be in the Montparnasse cemetery, far from the mighty rivers that saw him born and that gave him his character of artist, and where he learned the first guitar chords, his faithful companion in the Parisian boulevards, where he earned his living as a payador and left his memory unquenchable.

The picture was taken and edited by me. The original text source could be found here, translation by me.