Horacio GARCÍA ROSSI [Argentinian] (1929-2012) Composition, 1995 Gouache under oval mount. Signed and dated lower right. 17 x 12 cm Provenance : Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris. Born in 1929, trained at art schools in Buenos Aires and based in Paris since 1959, Horacio Garcia Rossi co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel (GRAV) in 1960 with Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Joël Stein, Francisco Sobrino and Jean-Pierre Yvaral. Galerie Denise René organized the collective's first exhibition in 1961, and it presented its Labyrinthe at the III Biennale de Paris at the Musée d'Art Moderne, and took part in Documenta III in Kassel in 1966. A kinetic artist interested in movement and light, he has conducted extensive research into the correlations of art with letters and linguistics. "I aspire, with a minimum of choice and a great economy of means, to carry out experiments with multiple possibilities." (H. Garcia Rossi, 1962)