Perla Benveniste

At the end of the 60s and while the interest in cinetism in
Argentine art was growing, Perla Benveniste (1942) was a young
artist interested in the study of movement and the phenomena of
perception. After the exhibition The Instability, a large audience
participated in the playful experiences that Julio Le Parc
presented in 1967 in the rooms of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
(ITDT). Companies and foundations began to stimulate the trend
and, in 1968, the National Salon opened the "Visual
Investigations" section to include the new experimental art
formats. Benveniste obtained a Mention in the Visual Investigation
Competition convened in 1970,. And with the passing of the
decade a fallback in his productions originated that led to a
marked transformation in the poetics of his works.
In recent years, kineticism has regained its place in the market
thanks to important exhibitions, in our country and abroad, that
have dealt with this artistic movement that had its heyday in the
60s.
This current, which is based on the aesthetics of the movement,
begins to develop after the First World War and acquires greater
strength from the fifties when the kinetic factor of vision in plastic
creation is investigated with greater precision. To achieve this,
artists choose three different paths: The illusion of a virtual
movement that does not really exist produced by the optical
impression of the viewer; the induction to the spectator to move in
the space so that it organizes in his mind the reading of a
sequence or the accomplishment of movements of images by
means of motors or other sources.