São Paulo, Brasil
23/03/2024 - 27/07/2024

Dan Galeria is pleased to present its first solo exhibition dedicated to Luis Tomasello, which highlights a selection of about thirty seminal Chromoplastic Atmosphères, Objets Plastiques and Lumières noires, covering more than thirty years of creative activity, from 1980 to 2012.

I start from an idea and sometimes even the result surprises me and is more valued than I expected. May the spectator receive it with the same simplicity. Luis Tomasello was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1915. At 36, he visited Europe for the first time and six years later, in 1957, he made Paris his permanent residence. It was there, in 1958, that he created his first works in kinetic relief, which he entitled Réflexion. Later, the art critic and poet Carlo Belloli, in the catalog of the second solo exhibition at Galerie Denise René in 1965, renamed them Atmosphères mobiles chromoplastiques. (The first Tomasello collectors in the gallery were Marguerite Arp and Philip Johnson). Throughout his life, Luis Tomasello consolidated his international reputation, from his first solo exhibitions, held in 1962 at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Buenos Aires and at Galerie Denise René in Paris, to his participation in all major international events dedicated to luminokinetic art. Tomasello has works in many major public and private collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Museum of Fine Arts — MFAH in Houston, and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation — CIFO in Miami. In Europe, the Musée national d’Art Moderne (Pompidou Center) and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France), both in Paris, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (The Netherlands), the Tate Modern in London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid have his works, as do numerous museums in Argentina: the Museum of Modern Art (MaMBA) and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Buenos Aires, among others. He also produced a large number of works integrated into architecture, both in Europe and in the Americas. He died in Paris in 2014. “With the minimum, achieve the maximum” was the principle that Mondrian left me and with which I have worked all my life. My plastic objects, or chromoplastic atmospheres, combine sculpture and painting in a single language and allow their integration into

architecture.