Gyula Košice

Gyula Košice (born Fernand Fallik in Košice, Slovakia in 1924), was a writer, plastic artist, poet, and theoretician. When he was four years old, he immigrated with his family to Argentina, where he adopted the name Gyula Košice as a tribute to his hometown. Along with Carmelo Arden-Quin, he founded the Madí movement and wrote the “Madí Manifest” in 1946. Later on he also participated in the abstract-only Arte Concreto-Invención movement. He is considered one of the vanguards of kinetic and luminance art, being one of the first to experiment with new materials and abstraction. In 1946, he created luminance structures with neon gas, used for the first time in the worldwide plane. In 1949, he also became the innovator behind the hydraulic sculpture, using the water as an essential element in his works. Throughout his career, he published 14 books of essays and poetry, made 30 personal exhibitions, and participated in more than 600 group exhibitions.

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