Adam's The Oliver Dowling Collection 11th September 2024

44 66 LUIS TOMASELLO (1915-2014) Untitled Acrylic on wood, 56 x 56cm € 2,000 - 3,000 67 LUIS TOMASELLO (1915-2014) Untitled Multiple 51/100, 36 x 36cm Signed and numbered € 600 - 800 Internationally renowned in the Ki- netic and Optical Art movements, Ar- gentinian artist Luis Tomasello is best known for his incandescent pieces that combine printmaking, sculpture and painting to create atmospher- ic abstractions. The son of an Italian house painter and bricklayer, Tomasel- lo learned the craft of construction early on, applying childhood skills to his early work alongside painters like Emilio Pettoruti and Carmelo Arden Quin, two key artists in the Argentine avant-garde. Tomasello began work- ing with geometric abstraction after a trip to Europe in 1945, and after engaging with a large group of Lat- in American kinetic artists working in France, he relocated permanently to Paris in 1951. Like many of the artists creating constructivist abstract work in the mid-1950s, Tomasello soon shift- ed into Optical Art, a movement that would ultimately culminate in a project Tomasello refers to as Atmospheres chromoplastiques. The pieces are usu- ally comprised of constructed or ren- dered white shapes—cubes, tetragons and triangles—positioned on a white background to reflect florescent col- ors on the underside. In addition to ex- hibiting internationally, Tomasello has created a number of large-scale pub- lic art commissions in France, Argenti- na, Mexico, and the United States.