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OverviewElias Crespin started off his career as a computer science engineer in Caracas. His work on software programming inspired his first sculptural experimentations in 2002, leading to the creation two years later of his first work, Malla Electrocinética I, 2004. His practice is at the crossroads of kinetic art and robotics. It draws both from the history of geometric abstraction and his profound knowledge of computer programming, and questions the interactions of art and technology.
Since 2008, he is based in Paris, France. In 2020, he inaugurated L’Onde du Midi, a permanent artwork commissioned by the Musée du Louvre for the museum’s galleries, hovering over 19th century stairs.Crespin’s works feature in the collection of internationally renowned institutions, such as the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, El Museo del Barrio, New York, the MALBA and the Museo de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires. They were shown in important exhibitions at the Galeries du Grand Palais, Paris, the ZKM Center for arts and media, Karlsruhe, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, or the Musée de la Musique, Paris. -
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Exhibitions
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Cosmologies
Elias Crespin 25 Mar - 27 May 2023Cosmologias es la primera exposición individual de Elias Crespin en Baró Mallorca, coincidiendo con la inauguración del Art Brunch Palma el 25 de marzo de 2023.Read more -
ARCOmadrid 2023
Rasheed Araeen, Daniel Arsham, assume vivid astro focus, Elias Crespin, Sidival Fila, Gary Hill, Albert Pinya, Pablo Reinoso, Amparo Sard 22 - 26 Feb 2023Booth 9A08 BARÓ celebrates its new participation in ARCOMadrid 2023 by bringing together a careful selection of works by Rasheed Araeen, Daniel Arsham, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Elias Crespin, Sidival...Read more -
Abu Dhabi Art 2021
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Baró Between
Elías Crespín 16 Sep 2021 - 30 Jun 2022Elías Crespín (Caracas, Venezuela, 1965) raises the concepts of form, space, time, and movement. His moving sculptures respond to sequences designated by numerical algorithms. The smoothness of the motion and...Read more -
POSTALES DE FUTURO
GROUP SHOW I BARÓ HOUSE 29 Oct - 20 Nov 2019Artistas (with the artists): Sol Calero, Alexander Apostol, Miguel Bracelli, Julio Loaiza, Milton Becerra, Emilia Azcarate, Oscar Abraham Pabon, Nayari Castillo, Yucef Merhi, Diego Barbosa, Juan Loyola, Pepe Lopez, Erika...Read more
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News
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Born on this day: Elias Crespin
Highlighting his major exhibitions this year November 20, 2024Elias Crespin's work embodies a unique combination of artistic intuition and scientific rigor. He seeks to create sculptures that give visible form to the laws...Read more -
Elias Crespin and Sidival Fila at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine
Une brève histoire de fils | Opening on October 10, 2024 September 15, 2024Elias Crespin and Sidival Fila are among the artists featured in 'Une brève histoire de fils', opening at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine on October...Read more -
Elias Crespin at the Bildmuseet
Chronomorphosis | Until January 12, 2025 August 7, 2024'Chronomorphosis', Elias Crespin's first solo exhibition in Sweden, is now on view at the Bildmuseet ( @bildmuseet ) in Umeå until January 12, 2025. Crespin's...Read more -
Elias Crespin enters the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kansas City, USA April 9, 2024After being on view at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2018, Elias Crespin's kinetic work Grand HexaNet is now part of the collection of...Read more -
Six Baró Artists with the Pope
At the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City July 3, 2023Pope Francis has gathered world-renound artists in the Sistine Chapel to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Vatican Museums’ Collection of Modern...Read more -
Elias Crespin in ÉCHO ‘RÉVOLUTION XENAKIS’
at CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE, PARIS February 1, 2022From 10 Feb Until 26 July 2022 In echo to the exhibition ‘Révolution Xenakis’, the Cité de la Musique presents a display of contemporary works...Read more -
L’ONDE DU MIDI by Elias Crespin
at the Louvre, Paris January 24, 2020Public collection | Musée du Louvre, Paris Opening on January 24th, 2020 To mark the 30th anniversary of the Pyramid, the Musée du Louvre has...Read more
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