Ivan Contreras-Brunet, kinetic watercolor, colored pencil & gouache.

On this work the grid structures are aligned in the vertical, whereas the second work has a horizontal alignment of the structure.

Two works in subject and technique are offered on this page.

Bottom right sign. Ivan Contreras-Brunet 8-1980

Works by Ivan Contreras are represented internationally in museums and collections, including the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Framing by the artist himself.

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Shimmering color light – this unexpected impression arises in view of the coloristically finely elaborated representation of the relief paintings by Ivan Contreras-Brunet.
 
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet began to express himself as a painter as early as 1934, and after attending the Academy (Academy of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile) from 1949 to 1950, he produced his earliest abstract paintings. Longer, formative stays abroad followed: for example, Contreras met with pioneering artists such as Georges Vantongerloo and Max Bill in Paris between 1952 and 1957. It was during this time that he made his first series investigations and designed Constructivist collages. Contreras’ stay in Vienna from 1953-54 brought him into close contact with the avant-garde literary Vienna Group.
He spent the years 1957 to 1961 in New York; it was there that he finally produced his first spatial and kinetic works.
With his return to Europe, Paris became his permanent residence from 1961.
At the latest since 1968 Ivan Contreras-Brunet – mind you a founding member of the avant-garde group CO-MO (Construction et Mouvement) together with Leo Breuer, Michel Seuphor, Luc Peire, Romano Zanotti, Nino Calos and Louis Deledicq – worked towards a dialogue between constructivist and kinetic art.