Carlos Cruz Diez
Bio
Carlos Cruz Ten (Venezuela, 1923 - France, 2019). Considered one of the most relevant protagonists of optical and kinetic art. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Caracas, where he obtained the diploma of professor of Applied Arts (1940), In Venezuela he worked as an illustrator in various media. He migrates to Paris in the 1960s, interested in researching kinetic art in the city that was the cradle of the movement in the 1930s. Since then, Cruz-Diez had an unstoppable career of more than 70 years, in which he managed to compile eight investigations on color, form, space and time that are still influential worldwide.
Statement
Considered one of the most relevant protagonists of optical and kinetic art, an artistic current that claims "the awareness of the instability of the real." His research reveals him as one of the thinkers of color of the 20th century. Carlos Cruz-Diez's plastic discourse gravitates around the chromatic phenomenon conceived as an autonomous reality that evolves in space and time, without the aid of form or support, in a continuous present. "I abandoned the wall for space. I don't make paintings, I make situations, in which things are constantly changing in time and space," said the artist in an interview to the BBC in 2015.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
