Manuel Mérida
Manuel Mérida is a Venezuelan artist whose kinetic art explores the infinite forms and visions that can be created through the movement of media within a contained space. His works are comprised of sand, pigments, coal powder, wood, and metal inside a circular case with glass. The works rotate by a motor or through their mobile nature. Each piece poses an opportunity for perpetual evolution.
Born in 1939, Mérida studied at the School of Fine Arts of Valencia, Venezuela, from 1950 through 1958. Merida comes from the second generation of South American kinetic artists. His works are presented in private and public collections in the U.S., France, Great Britain, and Switzerland.