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J. MargulisBetter Halves2025
2025
$7,875
£5,921.37
€6,876.14
CA$10,997.27
A$12,196.79
CHF 6,405.16
MX$149,785.24
NOK 81,083.19
SEK 76,462.53
DKK 51,303.58
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Jose Margulis is a contemporary artist whose work explores the space where art, science, and philosophy meet. Best known for his three-dimensional geometric constructions, he works with light, color, and layering to create pieces that shift depending on the viewer’s position and the passage of time. His art invites quiet attention, offering a meditative experience that unfolds through movement and presence.
Driven by a genuine curiosity about how we experience reality, Margulis explores ideas rooted in duality, emotional nuance, and the unseen forces that shape our perception. His process blends intuition with careful planning, grounded in both experimentation and research. Inspired by science, optical effects, and philosophical questions, he creates works that act as quiet thresholds—spaces where the visible and the felt begin to overlap.
Margulis approaches his practice with care and intention—whether experimenting with new materials, refining kinetic interactions, or incorporating technologies that add richness and complexity to his work. He believes in the power of structure and discipline, not just in making the work, but also in building a sustainable and meaningful practice.
Margulis offers more than visual complexity—he offers an experience. His work opens a subtle dialogue between perception and emotion, inviting viewers to engage deeply and return often, each time discovering something new.
- Creator:J. Margulis (1970, Venezuelan)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Montreal, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1194116614712
J. Margulis
As most Venezuelan artists from his generation, Margulis came of age with the rise of Geometric abstractionism and Kinetic art, influenced early on by his encounters with the works of Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús Soto and Naum Gabo, the Russian constructivist sculptor, specifically through his expsoure to Gabo’s Linear Constructions in Space series, which challenge the construction of volume and space, creating figures with fine threads on a structure. For Margulis, abstraction is the language in which he expects magic to happen, an argot that he masters with ease, where space and its possible construction with the minimum use of materials become one of the playful strategies of his artistic expression. His colorfully sculpted elements emerge as models for his photographic creations, and conversely, each medium coexisting individually, yet dialoguing with the other, creating a variety of discourses based on different perceptions, in an infinite loop in which one agent of expression nurtures and enriches the other. Margulis’ effort has evolved to become a combination of sculpture and photography, creating visual compositions within two different languages and discourses that complement one another. He has participated in several exhibitions and relevant International Art fairs and his art belongs in private collections in Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Italy, Spain, Australia, China, Dubai and the United States. J. Margulis was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He currently resides and works in Miami, Florida.
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