Raúl Lozza

Raúl Lozza founded an abstract movement called Perceptismo. All his works, post-1947 adhere to this style. This was also the year that Lozza stopped exhibiting with the Asociación Arte Concreto- Invención which he had been part of since its inception in 1945. Lozza’s change of heart was due to his wish to continue his explorations into the coplanal form, the physical separation of forms in space as a way of avoiding any kind of visual illusion. Others in the Asociación however, including Tomás Maldonado and Alfredo Hlito, were progressively moving away from the coplanal towards a more European style of abstraction and works that Lozza saw as being limited by the use of the rectangular frame. Lozza used the frame as a neutral colour-field for which to view the coloured forms. He further separated these, by mounting them onto the colour field rather than painting them on.