2006
Le Parc took part in the exhibit The Sites of Latin American Abstraction at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), in Miami. Le Parc’s enormous mobile (approximately 23 x 56 feet) for the Paris Biennial became part of that prestigious collection. Le Parc attended the exhibit, as did Yamil and Eli, Eli having become an important part of the Le Parc studio.
![Avec Rogelio Polesello et Cristina Guzman, Buenos Aires, 2006](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/jlp_229.jpg?itok=TZewA9Ag)
![Avec l’architecte Guillermo Merega, Buenos Aires, 2006](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/jlp_185.jpg?itok=inslv8bZ)
![Avec Clary et Roger Haloua, Buenos Aires, 2006](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/jlp_137.jpg?itok=IK0SiKZS)
![Avec Julieta Giargullo, Mendoza, 2006](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/jlp_125e1.jpg?itok=kGeI6dhJ)
![Avec Oscar Smoljan et son épouse, Neuquen, 2006](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_2496.jpg?itok=qV3LQM_T)
2007
Le Parc attended the inauguration of Lo(s) Cinético(s) at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. This exhibit was comprised, as usual, by artists who used a similar technique without regard for the many different concerns of those exhibiting.
Le Parc traveled to Botogá, Colombia, for his exhibit Le Parc Lumière, from Daros, which was presented in the Luis Ángel Arango Galleries of the Banco Nacional de Colombia. Complementing this exhibit, a solo show at La Cometa gallery. Re-encounter with the art world there. Le Parc then traveled to São Paolo, continuing his relationship with the Nara Roesler Gallery for a solo exhibit.
Yamil Le Parc joined the Le Parc studio, bringing new energy to the workshop and organizing and promoting Le Parc’s work.
![Avec Carlos Granada, Colombie, 2007](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_0982.jpg?itok=t5l-1Egs)
![Avec José Jaramillo, Colombie, 2007](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_0950e1.jpg?itok=pEe_jllU)
2008
Le Parc traveled to San Sebastián, in the Basque country of northern Spain, for the Daros exhibit at La Tabakalera, a center for contemporary culture.
Gathering a small group of his two-dimensional works together for the first time—based on his first experiences, in 1958–59—Le Parc mounted an exhibit in the Gallerie Argentina in Paris.
To celebrate his 80th birthday with his grandchildren and other family members, Le Parc had a party in his expanded and renovated studio in Cachan, leading to many re-encounters with friends and companions from the various periods of his life and career. The attendees helped him blow out the eighty candles on his 12-foot-long homemade birthday cake.
![Avec Enrique Careaga, Cachan, 2008](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/enrique_careaga_y_julio_e1.jpg?itok=M-LTBa5P)
2009
Le Parc was invited to create one of his Torsions, 60 feet high, in Monterrey, Mexico, and he donated the work to the city.
Le Parc once again visited Havana as culmination of the Kinetic Art Year organized by the Casa de las Américas. Re-encounter with Cuba and its changes. Mariano Rodríguez had died.
![Avec Makco Mestrovich, Karlsruhe, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_2482e1.jpg?itok=Ic8l1Na6)
![Avec Lélia Mordoch, Paris, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_2572.jpg?itok=zih_UjJe)
![Avec Valmore, Paris, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_2609.jpg?itok=ZF3iuLGO)
![Avec Fernando Retamar, Casa de las Americas, La Havane, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_3502.jpg?itok=51iuoLCN)
![Avec Juan Moreira, Alicia Leal et Yamil, La Havane, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_3559.jpg?itok=c-qXTiUl)
![Avec Lesbia, La Havane, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_3614.jpg?itok=ICgJLIIb)
![Casa de las Americas, La Havane, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_3799.jpg?itok=lnqNWFG2)
![Avec l’équipe de réalisation de la sculpture, Monterrey, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/julio_le_parc_monterrey_abril_09_203.jpg?itok=wPY9KBAk)
![Réunion des artistes latino-amèricains avec Estrellita et Denise René, Paris, ambassade d’Angletterre, 2009](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/latino-americains_2009045e1_1.jpg?itok=il_LRodj)
2010
Gabriel Le Parc made a film titled Le Parc Lumière on the Daros Foundation’s Le Parc collection.
With Yamil, Le Parc traveled to several cities in the United States, particularly Los Angeles, where he took part in the exhibit Suprasensorial : Experiments in Light, Color, and Space at the Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Alma Ruiz. There, Le Parc exhibited his installation Lumière en mouvement (Light in Movement).
At the request of Jean-Louis Pradel, Le Parc took part in the exhibition Juste une Étincelle with, among other works, Continuel-lumière cylindre au plafond (Continuous-Light on Ceiling).
In Buenos Aires, at the Centro Cultural Borges, Galería Pacífico, Le Parc installed his large Móvil Transparente Poliedro (Transparent Polyhedron Mobile), paying homage to the muralists of the gallery with a work of images in movement.
With Claudio de Groppo, Le Parc took several shots with a device conceived by him that included a video camera—the shots were to be incorporated into a short film to be called Buenos Aires te quiero (Buenos Aires, I Love You). Le Parc set in motion the idea of a multi-video installation that would be called Le Parc quién (Le Parc Who).
Gabriel produced the definitive version of Historietas.
![Avec Morellet et Garcia Rossi, Cholet, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_5174.jpg?itok=78s0PzZD)
![Avec Ella Cisneros Fontanals, Bonn, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/mabra_100916_kah_1425.jpg?itok=NXqTD2YK)
![Avec Luis Felipe Noé, Buenos Aires, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/noeyleparc_.jpg?itok=8rF-flz3)
![Avec Teresita Anchorena, Buenos Aires, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_7309_.jpg?itok=u7X2ohjo)
![Avec Claudio Groppo, Buenos Aires, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_7012_.jpg?itok=thju_5Y8)
![Avec Laura Marquez, New York, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_6232.jpg?itok=SHLUPXfj)
![Avec Pascual Ruggero, Yamil et Pati Ruggero, New York, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_6204.jpg?itok=Fc0FLGss)
![Avec Laurent Le Bon, Metz, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_5837_.jpg?itok=P7feXppW)
![Avec Matieu et Rougemont, Camargue, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_5752_.jpg?itok=HfnFeFBV)
![Avec sa cousine, Los Angeles, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/dsc01074_0.jpg?itok=qm4cvVCC)
![Avec des anciens compagnons du mouvement des étudiants des Beaux-Arts, Buenos Aires, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/_o2u8474_.jpg?itok=ct9KZ_KH)
![Avec Cristina Rossi, Buenos Aires, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/_o2u7917_e1.jpg?itok=loq0Svli)
![Avec Alma Ruiz, Los Angeles, 2010](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/dsc01044.jpg?itok=E-J1V8Kg)
2011
Solo exhibition at the Galerie Bugada & Cargnel in Paris, curated by Matthieu Poirier. Title: L’Oeil du Cyclope.
Le Parc worked hard preparing the light works for his solo galleries in the exhibition Erre : Variations Labyrinthiques at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. Seeing this exhibit and impressed by Le Parc’s galleries, Jean de Loisy, director of the Palais de Tokyo, proposed mounting an exhibition of the artist’s works in 2013 in the prestigious, renovated Palais.
![Avec Guillaume Désanges et Hélène Guenin, Cachan, 2011](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1050143.jpg?itok=20e9MhP4)
![Avec Eugenio Valdéz et Iole de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, 2011](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1000768.jpg?itok=3vu_glrC)
![Avec Abraham Palatnik, Rio de Janeiro, 2011](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1000270_.jpg?itok=all2zF2G)
2012
Le Parc traveled to Washington, DC, for his installation at Suprasensorial in the Hirshhorn Museum, curated by Alma Ruiz and Valerie Fletcher.
Responding to an invitation from Homage to Argentine Airports, Le Parc created two installations at ARTEBA, curated by Yamil Le Parc.
Le Parc traveled to Rome for the exhibit Arte Programmata e Cinética at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna.
Mendoza, Le Parc’s city of birth, had built a modern culture center and proposed naming it for Le Parc. Le Parc donated a 30-foot-diameter Red Sphere Mobile to the center, where it was installed in the entrance hall. Moved, Le Parc attended the inauguration, reading a poem-text he wrote for the occasion.
Invited to take part in the Nuit Blanche in Paris, Le Parc created two works: the first, a large installation with tulles and light titled Lumière en vibration (Vibrating Light) in the Centre Beaugrenelle, and the second, a Luminoso installation at the Obelisk on the Place de la Concorde. Le Parc was the first person ever to have proposed a project involving the Obelisk.
Sadly, other former members of GRAV died this year: Jöel Stein and Horacio García Rossi.
![Avec Piza et Raquel Arnaud, Paris, 2012](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_0231.jpg?itok=O-PZlvv0)
![Avec Quino (Mafalda), Mendoza, 2012](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_5941.jpg?itok=yhFBcgbW)
![Inauguration du Centre culturel Le Parc, Mendoza, 2012](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/img_6047.jpg?itok=m2ZDemsF)
2013
After a great deal of work with curator Daria de Beauvais, artistic adviser Yamil Le Parc, and director Jean de Loisy to plan the retrospective in the Palais de Tokyo, Le Parc completed the list of artworks and the mounting/installation layout for what would be almost 22,000 square feet of exhibition space for several large-scale installations. Almost 200,000 visitors flocked to the exhibit over its three-month run. Parallel to this event were others in other venues: at the Lelia Mordoch, Bugada & Gargnel, and Denise René galleries, plus an exhibit of Multiples curated by Yamil Le Parc in Galerie GDM.
Le Parc was interviewed by Hans-Ulrich Obrist for a book to be published by Skira/Flammarion. Arnauld Pierre and Jean-Louis Pradel wrote major essays for the book, titled simply Le Parc.
A group exhibit titled Dynamo : Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l’Art and curated by Serge Lemoine was held in the Grand Palais. For this event, Le Parc actively collaborated on the reconstruction of GRAV’s Labyrinthe for the 1963 Paris Biennial. Le Parc himself exhibited a considerable number of works in Dynamo.
At the request of Ediciones Jannink, Le Parc revised his responses to the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Cholet, France (2000), and with added drawings created a little book titled Voleur de Paroles.
Le Parc traveled to Brazil, mainly for his solo exhibition at the Nara Roesler gallery in São Paulo, curated by Estrellita Brodsky, but also for another at the Galería Carbono, curated by Yamil Le Parc. Later, he traveled to Rio de Janeiro for his major exhibition Le Parc Lumière at the Casa Daros.
A work from the Alchemies series was incorporated into the major exhibition of one of the masters of Pointillism: Signac: Les Couleurs de l’Eau, at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, France.
Jean-Louis Pradel, specialist in the work of Le Parc and a dear friend, died.
![Avec la famille Morellet et Eli, Paris, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/2013_dynamo_grand_e1.jpg?itok=x2-CMkSH)
![Avec Jean de Loisy, Paris 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/prc_8777.jpg?itok=QQR4HUf1)
![Avec Santiago et Juan (Ainoko), Paris, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/prc_8713.jpg?itok=KvTxC0Q8)
![Avec Yumiko et Roberto Plate, Paris, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/photol.jpg?itok=22-HRPrR)
![Avec Anish Kapoor, Venise, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1040097.jpg?itok=wkhQOweq)
![Avec Chus Burés, Paris, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1020963e1.jpg?itok=MUuvsaO3)
![Avec Daniel Roesler, Yamil et Alexandre Roesler, São Paulo, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/daniel_roesler_julio_le_parce_yamil_le_parc_e_alexandre_roesler-img_1779.jpg?itok=79fm_mRf)
![Flavio Magallanes et Yamil, São Paulo, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/evento-img_1453.jpg?itok=SRw_oxOH)
![Avec Luis Tomasello, Christian Boltanski, Martha et Yamil, Paris, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1020801e1.jpg?itok=A13CwIdn)
![Avec les Morellet, Matthieu Poirier et Servulo Esmeraldo, Paris, exposition Dynamo, Grand Palais, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1020954.jpg?itok=ODOg6Svl)
![Avec Serge Lemoine, Paris, Grand Palais, 2013](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/lemoine.jpg?itok=RGKFyD0A)
![Julio Le Parc, Continuel-Lumière, Palais de Tokyo © Yamil Le Parc](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/timeline_images/continuel_lumiere_cylindre_palais_tokyo_photo_yamil_le_parc.jpg?itok=hqqs6CXM)
2014
First major solo exhibition of the work of Le Parc in the United Kingdom, at the Serpentine Galleries in London, in which Le Parc presented his light-immersive installations, interactive games, and, at the request of Hans-Ulrich Obrist, a large selection of drawings (Dibujos al teléfono, sketches, projects, caricatures, political dawings, etc.), later made into a book.
A large Continuel-lumière cylinder (Continuous-Light Cylinder) belonging to the Pinault Collection was exhibited in The Illusion of Light at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
A large Déplacement piece by Le Parc was part of the Phares/Beacons exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Le Parc struggled with the organization of the Le Parc Lumière exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. What he hoped to have as an exhibition were the 41 Le Parc works in the Daros Latinamerica Collection—to convey Le Parc’s spirit of experimentation—was ultimately represented by 14 works. Yamil’s perseverance called for additional work to be exhibited beyond the exhibition space, including the monumental Esfera Amarilla (Yellow Sphere), measuring six meters in diameter. On this occasion, the book Le Parc Lumière was republished in Spanish and English
Invited to take part in Melbourne, Australia’s “White Night,” Le Parc delegated supervision of that exhibit to Eli Le Parc and Fabrice Ainaut.
At Art Basel, under the auspices of Bugada & Gargnel, Le Parc exhibited a Red Sphere Mobile, some twenty feet in diameter, in the section Art Unlimited.
Francisco Sobrino, a friend of Le Parc’s since 1955 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and cofounder of GRAV, died.
Installation of two large works, Torsion 1 and Sphère Rouge (Red Sphere), at 444 Brickell Avenue, Miami, commissioned by Jorge M. Pérez.
Yamil Le Parc went to Inhotim, Brazil, and met with Bernardo Paz, who immediately invited Le Parc to come to Inhotim to make plans for a pavilion in his large open-air museum. Le Parc designed a pavilion to be built there.
France bestowed the Legion d’Honneur on Le Parc.
Thanks to Estrellita B. Brodsky, the Sala Oscura de Tortura was presented in the exhibition titled Bearing Witness: Art and Resistance in Cold War Latin America at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City; in attendance was the Brazilian artist Gontran Guanaes Netto.
![Avec Katrin Steffen, Buenos Aires, 2014](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/_mg_9490e1.jpg?itok=m8dRY1aQ)
![Avec Hans-Ulrich Obrist et Julia Peyton-Jones, Londres, 2014](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/4v3a0567.jpg?itok=bvGROznL)
![Avec Jorge et Darlene Pérez, Miami, 2014](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/4v3a1788.jpg?itok=8mzn9uQw)
![Avec Carlitos, Dante et Claudio, Buenos Aires, 2014](https://julio-le-parc.com/sites/default/files/styles/photohistoire/public/p1010279.jpg?itok=X5f0U4E4)