{"id":713,"date":"2025-03-31T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/?post_type=artistas&#038;p=713"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:34:46","slug":"abraham-palatnik","status":"publish","type":"artistas","link":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/artistas\/abraham-palatnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Palatnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><strong>Abraham Palatnik<\/strong> (1928, Natal, Brazil\u20142020, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a central figure in the development of kinetic and optical art in Brazil. A painter, kinetic artist, and draftsman, he joined the Grupo Frente in 1954 alongside figures such as Ivan Serpa, Ferreira Gullar, M\u00e1rio Pedrosa, Franz Weissmann, and Lygia Clark. Trained in engineering, Palatnik pursued technical investigations centered on experimentation with movement and light, developing works based on visual phenomena that would define his practice over the course of seven decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Palatnik participated in several editions of the <strong>S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial<\/strong>, Brasil (1951, 1955, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969), as well as the 32nd <strong>Venice Biennale<\/strong>, Italy (1964). His retrospective <em>The Reinvention of Painting<\/em> was presented at institutions including the <strong>Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil<\/strong> in Bras\u00edlia, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte; the <strong>Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Iber\u00ea Camargo<\/strong> in Porto Alegre; the <strong>Museu Oscar Niemeyer<\/strong> in Curitiba; and <strong>MAM\u2013S\u00e3o Paulo<\/strong> (2011\u20132013). Notable group exhibitions include <em>Sur moderno<\/em>, <strong>MoMA<\/strong>, New York (2019); <em>The Other Trans-Atlantic: Kinetic &amp; Op Art in Central &amp; Eastern Europe and Latin America 1950s\u20131970s<\/em>, presented at <strong>Sesc Pinheiros<\/strong>, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil; <strong>Garage Museum of Contemporary Art<\/strong>, Moscow, Russia; and the <strong>Museum of Modern Art<\/strong>, Warsaw, Poland (2017\u20132018); and <em>Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason<\/em>, <strong>The Met<\/strong>, New York (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">His works are held in major institutional collections, including <strong>MoMA<\/strong>, New York, USA; <strong>MALBA<\/strong>, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the <strong>Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium<\/strong>, Brussels, Belgium; the <strong>Museum of Fine Arts<\/strong>, Houston, USA; <strong>MAM\u2013Rio de Janeiro<\/strong>, Brazil; and <strong>MAM\u2013S\u00e3o Paulo<\/strong>, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-713","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}