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Quick facts for kids Gyula Kosice
Kosice in 2015
Born	Ferdinand Fallik (1924-04-26)26 April 1924 Košice, Czechoslovakia
Died	25 May 2016(2016-05-25) (aged 92) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Education	Academia Libre de Buenos Aires
Notable work	Royi, Ciudad Hidroespacial
Movement	Concrete Art, Kinetic Art

Gyula Kosice (born Ferdinand Fallik; April 26, 1924 – May 25, 2016) was a famous artist. He was a sculptor, painter, writer, and poet. He was born in Czechoslovakia and later became an Argentine citizen.

Kosice was very important in shaping modern art in Argentina. He helped start art styles like Concrete Art and Kinetic Art. He was a pioneer in using new things in his art. For the first time in art history, he used water and neon gas in his artworks.

He created huge sculptures and special art pieces that used water. These included "hydrospatial walks" and "hydrowalls." Kosice also helped create important art groups like the Association Arte Concreto – Invacion (AACI) and Grupo Madí. He showed his art in over 40 solo shows and 500 group shows around the world.

About Gyula Kosice's Life

Ferdinand Fallik was born on April 26, 1924, in Košice, Czechoslovakia. His family was Hungarian. He later chose the name Gyula Kosice to honor his hometown.

When he was four, his family moved to Argentina in 1928. They traveled on a steamship called the Alcanatara. In 1932, when he was eight, he became an orphan. He and his two brothers were cared for by a friend of his father.

As a child, Kosice loved to read. He often visited libraries. There, he learned about the amazing inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. He also started writing poetry, which he continued throughout his life.

Kosice began his art career in the 1940s. He worked with other artists who shared his ideas about art. He helped form the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (AACI) and Grupo Madí. He remained a key figure in Arte Madí for the rest of his life. He wrote for art magazines and created Madí paintings and sculptures. He experimented with new materials like stainless steel, aluminum, bronze, and plexiglass.

One of his most famous works is the Hydrospatial City. This project suggested a way to build cities in space. It was his idea to help with Earth's growing population. Kosice kept showing his art and creating large sculptures worldwide.

In 1945, he met his wife, Diyi Laãn. She was also an artist and poet in the Arte Madí group. Later, she focused on supporting Kosice's art career. In 2005, he turned his workshop in Buenos Aires into a museum. Gyula Kosice passed away in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 25, 2016.

Starting His Art Career (1940s)

In the early 1940s, Kosice began making his first non-figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures. He was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. He wanted to use science and new ideas to think about the future, not just the present. He also wrote poems and texts about how different types of art could work together.

Gyula Kosice's art career truly began in 1944. He started visiting cafes in Buenos Aires. There, he met other poets and art lovers. He discussed poetry with Alberto Hidalgo. He also learned about Constructivism and the Bauhaus style. These were important European art movements.

At these cafes, he met other "concrete artists." They shared the idea that art should be about itself, not about showing real objects. They believed art should be made for its own sake. With this group, he published the Arturo magazine. He also helped form the AACI. In 1944, he published Arturo with Carmelo Arden Quin, Rhod Rothfuss, Joaquín Torres-García, Tomás Maldonado, and Lidy Prati. The magazine featured poems, artworks, and articles about constructivist art. That same year, they held private art shows in homes. One show was at the home of photographer Grete Stern.

In 1945, the group of artists in Buenos Aires split. One group was the Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (AACI). It was led by Tomás Maldonado. The other group was called Grupo Madí. Kosice founded this group with Quin, Ruthfuss, and Martín Blaszco. Grupo Madí was different because they wanted to include sculpture, design, and architecture. This allowed Kosice to try new materials like plastics, water, and neon in his art.

The name "Madí" was made up by the group. Kosice said it didn't mean anything special. The group wanted to share the "Madí spirit" beyond just art. They wanted to inspire dancers, architects, and actors too. Their journals included poems, art theories, music reports, and a "Madí Dictionary."

Over the next few years, Kosice held many international shows with Grupo Madí. In the Madí Manifesto, Kosice wrote that Madí art was about the "absolute value" of the artwork itself. It should only be expressed by the unique features of the art form. For example, a painting uses color on a flat surface. A sculpture might have "movement" without adding color.

Some of Kosice's early works showed these ideas. Royï (1944) was one of the first artworks that needed the viewer to participate. Kosice made this wooden sculpture with hinges. Viewers could move parts of it to change its shape. This idea was later important in the Kinetic Art movement of the 1960s. Another work, Una gota de aqua acunada a todad velocité (1948), was the first to use water. It had a small motor that moved an acrylic box filled with water and air.

In 1947, Kosice had his first solo show of Madí Art. It was at the Bohemien Club in Galerías Pacífico in Buenos Aires. This was the first completely non-figurative art show in Latin America. In 1948, he was part of a Madí exhibition in Paris. In the late 1940s, Kosice was the first to use neon lighting in his art. He used neon to create abstract patterns, which he called "Hydrokinetism."

Later Career and Passing (1950s–2016)

In the late 1950s, Gyula Kosice began making his "hydrokinetic" sculptures. These artworks used moving water, neon light, plexiglass, and aluminum. Kosice used these sculptures to explore how we see color and motion. He wanted to make viewers feel visually unstable. The constant movement of water and light created this feeling of instability. These "hydrokinetic" sculptures were part of the Kinetic Art movement. They were shown in Paris in 1958.

In 1965, Kosice created Columnas Hidroluz (Hydrolight Columns). This work used plastic containers filled with moving water. It focused on how light looked when it moved through water. The moving water and air bubbles made the work seem to "defy gravity." This made viewers feel a sense of wonder.

In the 1970s, Kosice started his Ciudad Hidroespacial (Hydrospatial City) project. He imagined building a new city in space. He worked on this big project for many years. Kosice was interested in space travel. He felt that buildings on Earth were mostly for powerful people. He wanted to design a futuristic city that flowed freely, like water. Ciudad Hidroespacial included many plexiglass models. These models showed how architects could build a large, self-sustaining city in space. It also used plastic, metal, and other materials. These were combined with pictures of cloudy skies.

Kosice received several awards for his art. He got the Trajectory in Plastics Arts award in 1994. He also received the Platinum Konex Award in 1982 and other Konex awards.

Gyula Kosice passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.

His Legacy

During his life, Gyula Kosice held over 40 solo art shows. He also took part in 500 group exhibitions around the world.

He is remembered for his new ideas in the kinetic art movement in Argentina. He was the first artist to use neon light and gas in his sculptures. He used these elements to create abstract patterns. He made many large sculptures, hydrospatial walks, and hydrowalls using these unique materials.

Artwork

• Röyi, 1944
• Esculatra Articulada, 1946
• Estructura Lumínica Madí 6, 1946
• Una Gota de Agua Acundada a Toda Velocidad, 1948
• Talla Directa "C", 1953
• Círculos Lumínicos y Llíea de Agua Móvil, 1968
• Aerolite, 1970
• Viviendas Hidroespaciales en la Constelación de Yael, 1970
• Constelaciones No.1 – No.6, 1970–1972
• Gota de Agua Móvil, 1980
• Cilindro Luminoso y Esfera, 1989
• Indermitencia Lumínica, 2010

Monuments

• Tiempo Para Hidroespaciar, Caracas, Venezuela. 1968
• Faro de la cultura, Centenary of the founding of La Plata, Argentina. 1982
• El Vuelo de la Paloma, La Paloma, Uruguay. 1985
• Homenaje a la Democracia, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2000
• Corazón Planetario, Favaloro Foundation, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2000
• Tríada – Fuente del Milenio, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2000
• Röyi, Museum of the Park, Portofino, Italy. 2009
• Röyi, Museum of Underwater Art (MUMART), Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, Italy. 2010
• Júblio, Kunsthalle, Košice, Slovakia. 2014

Exhibitions

1947

• Galerías Pacífico, Buenos Aires. (First all non figurative, abstract and kinetic exhibition in Latin America).

1953

• Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires.

1960

• Kosice, Galerie Denise René, Paris.
• Exhibition of spatial constructions and first hydraulic sculpture, Drian Gallery, London.

1963

• Galerie L'Oeil, Paris.

1964

• Galerie La Hune, Paris.

1965

• Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York.

1966

• Galería de Arte Moderno, Córdoba, Argentina.

1967

• Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires.
• Kosice, Sculpture: water, light, movement. Galería Bonino, New York.

1968

• "100 obras de Kosice, un precursor", Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
• Kosice, Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires.
• 150 meters of rain, Florida street, Buenos Aires.

1969

• Bijoux et sculptures d'eau, Galerie Lacloche, Paris.

1970

• Galería Estudio Actual, Caracas, Venezuela.

1971

• "La Ciudad Hidroespacial", Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires.

1972

• Galería de Arte del Banco Continental, Lima, Peru.
• G.K., Foyer del Teatro Municipal General San Martín, Buenos Aires.
• Exhibition organized by Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.

1973

• Luis Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia.

1974

• Kosice, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
• Kosice bijoux hydrospatial, Espace Cardin, Paris.

1975

• La cite' hydrospatial. Espace Cardin, Paris, France.
• Kosice Works, Galería Pozzi, Buenos Aires.

1977

• Exhibition Kosice, aluminum relieves. 1945 – 50. Documents about Madí art. Departamento Cultural Librería de la Ciudad, Galería del Este, Buenos Aires.
• Hydrospatial Exhibition organized by Argentine "Confagua" and the ONU for the "Water World Conference", Mar del Plata, Argentina.

1979

• "Esculturas insólitas, pequeño formato, piezas únicas" Galería Birger, Buenos Aires.
• Hydrokinetic works, Galería Unika, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
• Hydrospatial City, City of Buenos Aires Galileo Galilei planetary.

1982

• Kosice, Hakone Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

1985

• Kosice's Monumental Works, Centro Cultural de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

1991

• Retrospective Exhibition, 1944 – 1990. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.

1999

• Anticipations, more than 80 works. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.

2003

• "Homenaje a un creador multifacético. 62 años de trayectoria. Obras Digitales." Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2003.

2005

• Little Kosice Room. Latin-American Art Museum, Austin, Texas, United States.
• Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez – 82nd Annual in Santa Fe, Argentina. Special Guest.

2006

• Madí Walk, at Florida Street (Buenos Aires).
• Tribute to Master Gyula Kosice in Culture and Art, Nation's Senate, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007

• Merryl Lynch Arteaméricas, G. Kosice special guest representing Latin America. Miami, United States.

Books by Gyula Kosice

• Invención (1945)
• Golsé-se (1952)
• Peso y medida de Alberto Hidalgo (1953)
• Antología madí (1955)
• Geocultura de la Europa de hoy (1959)
• Poème hydraulique (1960)
• Arte hidrocinético (1968)
• La ciudad hidroespacial (1972)
• Arte y arquitectura del agua (1974)
• Arte madí (1982)
• Del Arte Madí a la Ciudad hidroespacial (1983)
• Obra poética (1984)
• Entrevisiones (1985)
• Teoría sobre el arte (1987)
• Kosice (1990)
• Arte y filosofía porvenirista (1996)
• Madigrafías y otros textos (2006)

See also

In Spanish: Gyula Kosice para niños