Rafael Parratoro, known as PARRATORO, is an Argentine-Venezuelan artist (Caracas, 1977) whose practice occupies a singular position within the tradition of kinetic and optical art. Educated in hydraulic engineering at the Central University of Venezuela, a campus designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an open-air museum of monumental public art, his technical formation and artistic consciousness developed simultaneously, and that intersection defines everything that followed.

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   His defining contribution to the field is formal: Parratoro treats the moiré effect not as a visual texture or ambient optical phenomenon, but as a precise drawing system. Through the controlled interaction of layered geometric patterns, he constructs specific geometric forms that do not exist at a fixed angle. They appear, shift, and dissolve depending on where the viewer stands. This distinguishes his work from the broader kinetic tradition and positions him as one of the few artists to have given the moiré effect a defined geometric language of its own.

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   His work spans sculpture, wall pieces, large-scale public installations, augmented reality, and interactive books, exhibited across Argentina, Chile, Mexico, the United States, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and China. In 2023, his work entered the permanent collection of the Museo Della Luce in Rome. Commissions include the Google Maps Platform Awards (2025) for Google, the complete artistic concept of Argentina's Premios Gardel (2023), and facade interventions for Tiendas Landmark and MAGIC Afflelou in Madrid. As invited artist at Lollapalooza Argentina, he intervened both the physical and augmented reality dimensions of the festival's main installation. His interactive books POP AR and POP ON OP have reached collectors in more than 40 countries.

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   Parratoro's practice extends into public art commissions, site-specific installations, brand collaborations, and art licensing for products and surfaces. He is based in Buenos Aires and works internationally.