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Artists›Alejandro Otero

Alejandro Otero

1921–1990

PrintmakingConstructivismKinetic Art

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• Constructivism
• Kinetic Art

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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

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Recent American Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957

About

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Alejandro Otero was a Venezuelan artist and pioneering kinetic sculptor who worked in welded steel and painted aluminum to create large-scale abstract compositions that incorporated movement and light. Active from the 1940s onward, he developed a distinctive geometric language that merged European constructivism with a visual vocabulary rooted in Venezuelan landscape and architecture. His kinetic and optical works positioned him as a foundational figure in Latin American modernism during the postwar period.

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (26)

Board 1

1976 · Lacquer on wood

78 1/8 × 21 9/16 × 1" (198.4 × 54.8 × 2.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boreal, from 21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (21 estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela)

1972 · Color screenprint on white wove paper

Image: 43.8 × 43.6 cm (17 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 75.7 × 56 cm (29 13/16 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Boreal from 21 Printmakers from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela)

1972 · Screenprint from a portfolio of ten intaglios, seven screenprints, three lithographs, and one aquatint

composition: 17 3/16 × 17 1/16" (43.7 × 43.3 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/4" (76 × 56.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

"Mon Cher Ami:"

1962 · Industrial paint, paper, and leather on wood

23 1/4 × 20 1/8 × 1 1/4" (59 × 51.1 × 3.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bloody Mary

1961 · Oil on wood

28 3/4 × 23 7/16 × 1" (73 × 59.5 × 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Study for Colorhythm)

1959 · Gouache on cut paper

8 7/8 × 3 1/2" (22.5 × 8.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Colorhythm 39

1959 · Lacquer on wood

78 3/4 × 21 1/16 × 1 3/16" (200 × 53.5 × 3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Colorhythm in Movement 5

1957 · Lacquer on wood and plexiglas

52 3/8 × 18 1/2 × 7 5/16" (133 × 47 × 18.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Group Exhibition Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection

New York · 1967

Group Exhibition Recent American Acquisitions

New York · 1957