Dario Perez-Flores - Artist Info

About Dario Perez-Flores

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Dario Perez Flores
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    Darío Pérez -Flores was born in Valera, Venezuela in 1936.

    Darío Pérez -Flores is considered amongst the most important Latin American Constructivist artists, whose main interest is the study of color and its capacity for stimulating perception, creativity and illusion.

    Despite his beginnings as a sculptor working with metal, light and Plexiglas, he now mainly produces paintings and assemblages, named Prochromatiques, in which vertical lines and elements predominate, alongside color degradés and contrasts.

    His whole body of work encompasses a lifetime of studies about optical and kinetic reverberance, a visual effect that happens when the viewer moves past the work. In other pieces, he uses motors that turn shapes in di...

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