Santander, 1970
Waldo Balart
Balart studied accounting and political science and economics in Havana before moving to New York in 1959 to pursue art studies. From 1959 to 1962 he studied art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Professionally, in 1967 he began working as a professor at numerous cultural centres and universities in the United States, Poland, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. He acted in two films by Andy Warhol, The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) and The Loves of Ondine (1968).
Waldo Balart, a leading figure of Concrete Art, frequently gives lectures and his work —explorations of colour and light in geometric paintings and light sculpture— has been widely exhibited. He has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Austria and the United States, among others. He received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Mondriaanhuis in Amersfoort, the Museum of Modern Art in Huenfeld, Germany, the Kurzführer-Museum im Kulturspeicher, among others. In 1992 he published the book “Waldo Díaz-Balart, Ensayos de Arte”, and in 2011 “The Practice of Concrete Art”. Work in the collection: Desarrollo Cromático del CEL https://waldobalart.com
Desarrollo Cromático del CEL, 1993
Series: Chromatic Development of CEL
Fragmented Image
Axiomatic Order 1.2.3
Proposition: Diagonal Image
Module 2×2, 1.3.5.7.
