Rogelio Polesello

Argentine painter and sculptor. He completed his training as a teacher of printmaking, drawing and illustration in 1958 in Buenos Aires, where he continued to live and work. He demonstrated a precocious talent and held his first one-man exhibition in Argentina in 1959, followed at the age of 22 by a one-man exhibition at the Pan American Union in Washington, DC, that presaged his considerable international success. His concern with the problems of visual dynamics suggested a sympathy with Constructivism and with the work of kinetic artists, although he never used actual movement.During the 1960s Polesello’s paintings were of two types. At first he superimposed paint applied by rubbing, dripping or with a palette knife on to structured and compartmented compositions. Later he used an airbrush to create distinct layers of colour over regular grids of different sizes or on top of curved decorative shapes, as in Side A (1965; New York, Guggenheim). The expressiveness of these works was dependent on the tension created by the relationships of similar or contrasting colours or by the play of light, the most important element in his interrelated paintings and sculptures. His visual explorations grew ever more subtle, as he had an apparently inexhaustible capacity for variations on a single theme. In sculptures carved from plastic, including monumental totems, geometrical forms or suspended plaques with sunken circles in them (e.g. Concave–Convex Lens, 1973; Caracas, Mus. A. Contemp.), he broke up multiplied images, made the light vibrate and changed normal perceptions of space to create rich sensory experiences. Source: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T068421?q=rogelio+polesello&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit