FOUNDATION

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas 1923

Considered one of the leading exponents of Contemporary Art, Cruz-Diez lives and works

in Paris since 1960.

Cruz-Diez began his research on color alongside the Kinetic Movement of the 1960s.

His reflections on art have expanded ideas about color to the extent that perceptions

of chromatic phenomena are not necessarily considered to be associated with form.

Cruz-Diez describes this concept as spatial structures, chromostructures or media for

chromatic events, which give origin to what is known as Physichromies, Transchromies,

Chromatic Inductions and Chromosaturations. These are the focus of all his research

and work , in which he shows that color, when interacting with the observer, is transformed

into an autonomous event capable of invading space without the aid of form, narrative

or symbols.

Cruz-Diez describes himself as an artist with the discipline of a researcher:

In my work, nothing is left to chance; everything is planned, programmed and codified.

Freedom and emotion only come into play when the time comes to choose and combine

the colors, a task on which I place just one restriction: it must be effective in expressing

my meaning. It is a combination of reason and emotion. I am not seeking to be inspired;

I reflect.

His works are in the permanent collections of institutions such as:

Museum of Modern Art, New York;

Tate Modern, London;

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;

Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne;

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The following are some of his major individual and collective exhibitions:

"The Responsive Eye", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (1965)

"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Die Autonomie der Farbe", Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (1988)

"Une Tour Eiffel haute en couleurs", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2003)

"Inverted Utopias: Avant Garde Art in Latin America", Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA (2004)

"Lo(s) Cinético(s)", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2007)

"(In)Formed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez", The Americas Society, New York, USA (2008)

"El Color Sucede", Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2009);

Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain (2009)

"Carlos Cruz Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color", Miami Art Museum, USA (2010)

"Suprasensorial. Experiments in Light, color and space". The Museum of Contemporary Art,

Los Angeles, USA (2010)

"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (2011)