Georges Vantongerloo: A longing for infinity (MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO REINA SOFIA) - Tapa blanda

Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, noviembre 2009-febrero 2010. Presenta 80 obras entre pinturas, esculturas y dibujos y traza la evolución del artista belga desde sus inicios con "Constructions in the Sphere" (1917) hasta sus últimos trabajos.

Georges Vantongerloo (November 24, 1886, Antwerp-October 5, 1965, Paris) was a Belgian abstract sculptor and painter and founding member of the De Stijl group. From 1905 to 1909 Vantongerloo studied Fine Art at the Fine Art Academies in Antwerp and Brussels. Conscripted into World War I, he was wounded in a gas attack and discharged from the army in 1914. During 1916 he met Theo Van Doesburg and the following year he was a co-signator if the first manifesto of the De Stijl group. Vantongerloo moved to Paris in 1927 and began a correspondence with the Belgian Prime Minister, Henri Jaspar in relation to the design of a bridge over the Scheldt at Antwerp. In 1930 he joined the Cercle et Carre group in Paris and a year later he was a founding member of Abstraction-Creation.