{"id":9717,"date":"2026-06-16T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:20:07","slug":"jesus-rafael-sotos-bright-yellow-kinetic-sculpture-installed-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/jesus-rafael-sotos-bright-yellow-kinetic-sculpture-installed-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas Rafael Soto’s bright yellow kinetic sculpture installed in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Serpentine has installed a colourful, kinetic sculpture by Venezuelan artist Jes\u00fas Rafael Soto alongside this year’s Lanza Atelier-designed Serpentine Pavilion<\/a> in central London<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named P\u00e9n\u00e9trable BBL Jaune, the kinetic pavilion is the first work by the artist, who passed away in 2005, to have been shown outdoors in the UK.<\/p>\n

The interactive sculpture, which forms part of Soto’s P\u00e9n\u00e9trable series, was selected for the gallery’s art programme by a team including Serpentine artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist.<\/p>\n

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A sculpture by Jes\u00fas Rafael Soto has been installed alongside this year’s Serpentine Pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I met Jesus Rafael Soto in the early 2000s, several times in Paris, and recorded long conversations with him, and have ever since been very fascinated by his work,” Obrist told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“How he really developed participatory kinetic work, how he managed to somehow dissolve objects into vibration, into to energy,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“P\u00e9n\u00e9trable are a real invention, they allow visitors to enter, to go through, [so it] goes from an object to a relation and we felt that would be amazing as part of our public art projects to do it in the park.”<\/p>\n

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It is designed for visitors to walk through<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pavilion, which was originally conceived in 1999, has a white steel frame from which thousands of yellow tubes are hung. Visitors are invited to walk through the sculpture and move the tubes to change how the piece appears.<\/p>\n

It has been installed alongside this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens in the same location as last year’s Lego Play Pavilion, which was designed by architect Peter Cook<\/a>.<\/p>\n