Rogelio Polesello

Rogelio Polesello (26 July 1939 – 6 July 2014) was an Argentine painter, muralist and sculptor. He was best known for making Op art (or optical art) known in Latin America. He won two Konex Awards; one in 1982 and another in 2012. He was born in Buenos Aires.^[1]

Rogelio Polesello studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, both in Buenos Aires. In 1959, he joined the Asociación Arte Nuevo, founded by Aldo Pellegrini and Carmelo Arden Quin. The paintings he included in his first solo exhibition at the Galería Peuser (Buenos Aires, 1959) followed the aesthetics of Op Art and were based on Gestalt theories. Their geometric forms, generally in black and white, added to or subtracted from the whole according to perceptive principles that produced specific optical effects.

Polesello died from a heart attack on 6 July 2014 in Buenos Aires. He was 75.^[2]

Solo exhibitions

Galería Peuser, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959
Galería Pizarro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960
Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961
Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1962
Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1966
Pinturas laicas, Galería del Techo, Caracas, Venezuela, 1966
Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969
Museo de Arte Moderno, México D.F., Mexico, 1974
Progresiones, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995
Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997
Muestra antológica, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000
Imanes, Sala Cronopios, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005

Grupo Boa, Galería Van Riel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1962
Salón Esso de Artistas Plásticos de América Latina, Panamerican Union, Washington, United States, 1965
The Emergent Decade: Latin American Painters and Painting in the 60’s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States , 1966
Premio George Braque, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1968
Grupo Boa, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969
Pintura argentina actual. Dos tendencias: geometría-surrealismo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976
Siglo XX argentino: arte y cultura, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999

Bayón, Damián. "Constructor con materiales nuevos: Polesello". In Rogelio Polesello. Buenos Aires: Galería Carmen Waugh, 1974
Glusberg, Jorge. "La geometría sensible de Rogelio Polesello". In Rogelio Polesello. Buenos Aires: Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, 1990
Glusberg, Jorge. Rogelio Polesello: Epi e hipergeometría. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1984
López Anaya, Jorge. "Rogelio Polesello: The neo baroque as metaphor of our era". In Rogelio Polesello: Recent works. Panamá: Museum Galería de Arte, 1992
Masotta, Oscar. "Rogelio Polesello y el mito de las profanaciones". In Rogelio Polesello. Buenos Aires. Galería Bonino, 1966
Noé, Luis Felipe. "Polesello encuentra a Polesello". In Rogelio Polesello. Buenos Aires: Galería Lirolay, 1962
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo. Un acercamiento a Rogelio Polesello. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1984
Progresiones. Buenos Aires: Palais de Glace, 1995
Rogelio Polesello en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2000
Uribe, Basilio. "Rogelio Polesello, o las proposiciones del ojo". In Rogelio Polesello. México D.F.: Museo de Arte Moderno, 1974

^ "Rogelio Polesello (Argentine, 1939)". artnet. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
^ "Dan el último adiós al artista plástico Rogelio Polesello" (in Spanish). El Día. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)