Martha Boto

Martha Boto (1925 – 2004) was an Argentinian artist based in Paris. Initially, she was affiliated with the concrete art movement, however she later devoted herself to the evolution of kinetic art. Her sculptures are autonomous devices that produce intricate visual effects as the result of movement and light generated by a motor. She was born into a family that had links to Spain. She painted and drew from a young age and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires with honours. She began painting early in her career, but soon set the medium aside in favour of creating a new form of sculptural expression. In the 1970s, she returned to painting with the goal of testing the bounds of the medium through the use of repetitive strokes of colour and form. (Source)