Biography

Carlos Cruz Diez 2010

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, 1923

Considered one of the leading exponents of contemporary art, Cruz-Diez lives and works in Paris since 1960.

He began his research on color alongside the Kinetic Movement of the 60s. His reflection on art has expanded our ideas about color to the point where today we can understand that perceptions of chromatic phenomena do not necessarily have to be associated with form. Cruz-Diez has conceived his proposition by what he qualifies as spatial structures, “Chromostructure” or media for chromatic events, giving origin to what we know as “Physichromie,” “Transchromie,” “Induction Chromatique,” “Couleur Additive” and “Chromosaturation.” These are the focus of all his research and works — works in which he shows that color, when it interacts with the observer, is transformed into an autonomous event capable of invading space without the aid of form, without narrative or symbols.

His works can be found in permanent collections 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 París

The following are some of his solo and group exhibitions:

"The Responsive Eye", Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States (1965)
"Carlos Cruz-Diez. Die Autonomie der Farbe [The Anatomy of Color]", Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (1988)
"Une Tour Eiffel haute en couleurs [A Colorful Eiffel Tower]", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2003)
"Inverted Utopias. Avant-Garde Art in Latin America", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States (2004)
"Lo(s) Cinético(s) [The Kinetic(s)]", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2007)
"(In)Formed by Color. Carlos Cruz-Diez", The Americas Society, New York, United States (2008)
"El Color Sucede [Color Happens]", 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, United States (2010)
"Suprasensorial Experiments in Light, Color, and Space", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States (2010)
"Carlos Cruz-Diez. Color in Space and Time", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Unitd States (2011)

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