A look inside ‘Radical Geometry’

A look inside ‘Radical Geometry’

A video tour with curator Gabriel Perez-Barreiro

By Amy Macpherson

Published 7 July 2014

Explore some of the highlights in our exhibition of groundbreaking abstract art from 20th-century South America

In the videos below, curator Gabriel Perez-Barreiro introduces three important groups of work in our exhibition Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection.

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Thinking outside the frame: Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s

Gabriel Perez-Barreiro introduces a group of artists who fused geometric abstraction with radical politics.

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Visible ideas: São Paulo in the 1950s

Influenced by the psychology of perception and mimicking industrial processes, this group of abstract geometric works reflect Brazil’s embrace of the the modern in the mid-century.

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Venezuela: Light and vibration, movement and colour

We take a look at two mesmerising works of kinetic art produced by Jesús Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez.

Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection is in The Sackler Wing of Galleries at the RA until 28 September 2014.