Rogelio Polesello (1939-2014) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Painter and sculptor, he presented his first solo exhibition in 1959 at the Peuser gallery where his admiration for Victor Vasarely was manifested. Shortly afterwards its geometry obtained references of the New Abstraction with resources of the optical artists, like the offset of geometric forms, with which it produced a strong effect of instability. He worked with painting, engraving and acrylic objects capable of generating optical effects that decompose the image. He made numerous solo exhibitions, including the Pan American Union in Washington in 1961, the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas in 1966 and 1968, the Visual Arts Center of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1969, the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires in 2000, in others. He also carried out interdisciplinary works related to architecture, the intervention of public spaces, advertising, environmental and textile design. He received the First Prize Georges Braque, the Grand Prize of Honor of the National Salon of the Arts and the First Prize ESSO Hall, in other distinctions. In 2015 the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires made an anthological exhibition of his works.
His work is included in public and private collections such as the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires (MAMBA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina; the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa), the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, the Blanton Museum in Austin and the Lowe Museum of Art in Miami, USA; the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and the Art Collection of the Bank of the Republic of Bogotá, Colombia and the Fine Arts Museum of Caracas, Venezuela, among many others.