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Jesús Rafeal Soto [Venezuela, 1923-2005]. Doble transparencia [Double Transparency] [detail]. 1956. Oil on plexiglas and wood with metal rods and bolts, 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 12 5/8" [55 x 55 x 32 cm]. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Ana Teresa Arismendi. Copyright 2019 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / ADACP, Paris.

Jesús Rafeal Soto [Venezuela, 1923-2005]. Doble transparencia [Double Transparency] [detail]. 1956. Oil on plexiglas and wood with metal rods and bolts, 21 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 12 5/8" [55 x 55 x 32 cm]. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Ana Teresa Arismendi. Copyright 2019 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / ADACP, Paris.

Tune in Thursday, May 28, at 8:00 p.m. EDT for a live Q&A with Inés Katzenstein, Curator of Latin American Art and Director of MoMA’s Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Senior Advisor to the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, about the exhibition Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift, as part of our Virtual Views initiative. Something you’d like to ask? MoMA members are invited to submit questions via our online form. (And if you miss the live stream, a recorded version will be available here immediately afterward.)