Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005)

Galería Theo, Madrid

Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez del Parque del Retiro, Soto, February-March, 1982, no. 140, p. 64, illustrated in color

“After having worked in the 1960s and 1970s within a certain sense of moderation with respect to the use of color, I became interested again in this element, but from a different perspective than that of 1956-57. In those years I was interested in the possibilities of color combinations and vibrations, independent of or opposed to the traditional concepts of chromatic harmony. My purpose was not and has never been to find a beautiful harmony of colors, but to put them to work, to combine and blend them randomly, as if color were part of a magma in which man finds or creates the harmonies that interest him. Deep down, I wanted to let them coexist as they do in nature, with no preconceived concept of harmony. All the superimposed colors could create new colors.” 

 -Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Soto in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez, New York: Fundación Cisneros, 2012, pp. 92-95