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Rogelio Polesello, born in the Argentine capital in 1939, presented his works for the first time at the age of twenty and subsequently became one of the two artists of the Instituto Di Tella, a cultural reference institution in the region, at the end of the 1960s. Polesello received his training at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts, both located in Buenos Aires. Read the full biography

Rogelio Polesello, born in the Argentine capital in 1939, presented his works for the first time at the age of twenty and subsequently became one of the two artists of the Instituto Di Tella, a cultural reference institution in the region, at the end of the 1960s. Polesello received his training at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts, both located in Buenos Aires. In 1959 he joined the Associacão Arte Nuevo, founded by Aldo Pellegrini and Carmelo Arden Quin. The paintings included in his first solo exhibition at Galería Peuser (Buenos Aires, 1959) follow the aesthetics of Op Art and are based on Gestalt theories. Its geometric shapes, usually empty and dilated, added or subtracted from the whole according to perceptive principles, produce specific optical effects.