RECENT WORK

Carlos Caceres Sobrea,  painter.

17-11-07 – 12-12-07

Carlos Caceres Sobrea is an abstract geometric painter , born in Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina in 1923. He lives and works in Gif sur Yvette, Frankrijk.

In 1953 Caceres Sobrea travelled to France. In Paris he formed part of a group of South Americans, among them Jesus Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, that eventually settled in Paris.  In Paris he met Fernand Léger and he had his first exhibition in Europe at Galerie La Roue. In 1965 he moves to Paris permanently.

From 1967 until 1971 Caceres Sobrea taught at the Ecole de Beaux Arts and from 1967 until 1989 at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture in Paris. He was frequently a member of award committees for grants and awards for architects and artists at various Art and Architecture institutions in France.

Caceres Sobrea has had solo exhibitions at Le Chateau de Belleville, Gif sur Yvette, at the  Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and several galleries in Paris amongst others Galerie Claude Dorval and Galerie E. Dalbanes.

His work forms part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires (MACLA), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile (MAC) and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

In 2005 he took part in the travelling exhibition Célébration de l’Art Géometrique that was held throughout Italy and at the MADI in Dallas. He regularly has solo exhibitions at Galerie Claude Dorval and Galerie E. Dalbanes.

Below you will find quotes from French critics about the work of Carlos Caceres Sobrea.

Although the work of Carlos Caceres-Sobrea belongs to the austere field of geometric abstraction, it adds a deeply personal contribution to it.
His work has an emotional dimension ... free of any references to anecdotic imagery.
His work invites us to look at it and slowly discover in it an intense moment of clarity and calm.
-Marc Gaillard
Art and Architecture critic

The recent paintings by Caceres Sobrea have become icons of our time, icons of the search for a new form of spirituality. Inside his images - images that are contemporary austere and sensitive- shines a mysterious aura, a source of peace and true wealth.
-Henri Malvaux
Former Director of l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

With marvellously few means but with an overwhelming mastery over colour Caceres Sobrea carries us far away, beyond any gate into depths one cannot return from without having been touched to the core.
-Pierre Kalfon
Correspondent Le Monde en Le Nouvel Observateur