11 Facts About Eusebio Sempere

Eusebio Sempere Juan was a Spanish sculptor, painter, and graphic artist whose abstract geometric works make him the most representative artist of the Kinetic art movement in Spain and one of Spain's foremost artists.

Eusebio Sempere began his studies at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia where he studied painting, drawing, and various etching techniques.

In 1948, Sempere went to study in Paris, where he met Palazuelo and Chillida and other avant-garde artists such as Kandinsky and Klee.

In 1964, Eusebio Sempere was granted a Ford Foundation fellowship which allowed him to travel to the United States and put on an exhibition at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, and to show his work in the Spanish Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York.

In 1968, Eusebio Sempere participated in a seminar at the Computer Centre of the Complutense University of Madrid on "Automatic generation of plastic forms" where he created works using computers.

Eusebio Sempere persuaded his artist friends, including Pablo Serrano, Miro, and Chillida, to donate their work, much of which is spectacular, especially his own cascade that forms a centerpiece of the assembly.

Eusebio Sempere was officially named a favorite son of the city of Alicante and awarded an honorary doctorate by the University.

Eusebio Sempere died in April 1985 in Onil, Alicante, after a long illness.

Eusebio Sempere's work is defined by the abstraction of its elements, geometric repetition and linearity, all of which evolved into his synthesis of Op Art and constructivism with elements of kinetic art.

Eusebio Sempere's personal contribution to the development of kinetic art is a series of abstract geometric constructions that demonstrate the perceptual effects of optical vibration and the illusion of motion.

Eusebio Sempere worked in many different media, from drawings, gouaches, oil paintings, and silk screen prints to sculptures of iron and stainless steel.