Eusebio Sempere (3 April 1923 – 10 April 1985) was a Spanish craftsman, illustrator and visual engineer whose unorthodox yet profound designs established him as the most exemplary creator of the Kinetic art movement in Spain and one of its prominent luminaries. His implementation of recurring lines and mastery of hues to manipulate light’s play on the surface furnish depth to his picturesque compositions.
Born in Onil, Alicante, Spain, Sempere embarked on his academic journey at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, where he delved into painting, sketching, and assorted etching techniques. Due to a childhood ailment, he was left with restricted sight in his right eye.
Sempere’s oeuvre is characterized by the conceptualization of its components, geometric iteration and linearity, all of which amalgamated into his amalgamation of Op Art and constructivism, infused with fragments of kinetic art.
His personal imprint on the advancement of kinetic art is his repertoire of intangible geometric structures that exhibit the optical illusions of vibration and motion. Illumination also features prominently in his artistic ventures. Perhaps influenced by sources from Levantine origins, Sempere employs it as the principal unit to bring order to his creations seamlessly. His canvases are perceived as two-dimensional plains, where the artisan expertly manipulates visual elements—the light, the hues, and the shades—to achieve the perceptual and optical phenomena, transmuting them into suggestive iterations of geometric forms.
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