CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ Venezuela, 1923-2019

Overview

Inducción Cromática a Doble Frecuencia Nora 2, 2011

"Colour is not something to be applied to a surface with a brush; it needs to be brought into the space. It took me many years of experience, research and failure to create works such as the Chromosaturation installations, which allow light to evolve like an event."

Carlos Cruz-Diez was a French artist of Venezuelan origin. He was born in Caracas in 1923 and died in Paris in 2019. Since the sixties, he lived and worked in Paris.

Carlos Cruz-Diez is a major artist in the optical and kinetic art movement, which claims "the realization of the instability of reality". Cruz-Diez's extensive research made him into a key thinker of colour in the 20th century. The artist conceived the chromatic phenomena as an autonomous reality, evolving independently in space and time in a continuous present.

His works are in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Wallraf-Richartz Museum (Cologne), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Modern Art Museum of Paris and the Pompidou Center (Paris). In 2021, he was chosen to represent the French pavilion Lumière, Lumières during the universal exhibition in Dubaï.

(Cover quote from an interview with Frame Magazine, #122, May/June 2018)

Exhibitions