Gyula Kosice in conversation with Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Gyula Kosice in Conversation with/en conversación con Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, the sixth title in the Conversaciones/Conversations series, presents a fascinating exchange between Gyula Kosice, one of the leading exponents of abstract art history in Latin America, and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, director and chief curator of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. This book chronicles conversations conducted over more than twenty years, which began shortly after Pérez-Barreiro's first encounter with Kosice's work at a 1991 retrospective of the artist. The book includes an introductory essay by curator and art historian Andrea Giunta.

Gyula Kosice was born in 1924 in the town of Kosice, in present-day Slovakia. At the age of four, he emigrated to Argentina, where he resides to this day. A sculptor, visual artist, theorist, and poet, Gyula Kosice is one of the most notable visionary artists of the 20th century. He co-founded the Madí movement in the 1940s and created the Hydrospatial City, a radical urban planning proposal that recreates a utopian environment suspended in space. Kosice is recognized as one of the precursors of avant-garde kinetic light art.