Colorhythm, 1  1955

In his Colorhythm series, Otero, an artist central to the development of abstraction in Venezuela, marked the first in-depth exploration of a repeating and abstract serial motif by a Latin American artist. Over the course of seventy-five paintings, he manipulated the same basic elements: brightly colored shapes and alternating light and dark bands. In Colorhythm, 1, irregu...