Museo Moderno
Kosice Gyula
"Röyi N°2, 1944 "

Slovakian immigrant, he arrived in Argentina at the age of four. He became involved from a very young age in the artistic advance of Buenos Aires, through the magazine Arturo, which was the initiator of debates around abstraction in the Buenos Aires sphere and the Arte Madí group – with its axes of the group’s search in the procedure of the cut-out frame as the concept of invention – with which he achieved a recognized position in the field of international abstraction. In the publication Invention I (appeared after the magazine Arturo) the tension always present in Kosice between a scientific and rigorous search and the desire for the playful and the incalculable is expressed. Röyi, like many of his works, seeks to confront the traditional concept of a work of art and challenge our expectations regarding artistic innovation. Driven in part by his work in a leather workshop run by his brother, Kosice began researching articulated pieces. In addition to Röyi, made of wood, he experimented with articulated metal sculptures: simple structures that do not stand on their own and lack a predetermined shape.