Venezuelan-born artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) has been described as “an amazing thinker of the twentieth century within the realm of shade.” On the event of Cruz-Diez’s centenary yr, Galleria Continua / San Gimignano presents “Carlos Cruz-Diez: L’Euforia del Colore,” opening on Might 27. It is going to be on view till September 10, 2023, at GALLERIA CONTINUA/San Gimignano, situated at Through del Castello 11, San Gimignano (SI), Italy (open from Monday to Sunday 10am-1pm and 2-7pm.)
Carlos Cruz-Diez is among the principal protagonists of up to date artwork. His analysis and his writings make him the final nice thinker of the twentieth century within the realm of shade. His work has revealed a brand new understanding of chromatic phenomena in artwork, increasing its perceptual universe significantly.
Cruz-Diez proposes shade as an autonomous and evolutive actuality the place the implication of our senses reveals chromatic occasions as they develop. Occasions that happen in area and time, with out anecdotes or references, stripped of any symbols, previous or future, in a steady current.
Works by Carlos Cruz-Diez encourage a distinct information relationship the place the viewers can uncover their capability to create and destroy shade with their very own perceptual means whereas discovering an emotional resonance by their private expertise.
Carlos Cruz-Diez describes himself as an artist making use of the self-discipline of a scientist “as a result of the helps that I’ve managed to construction are a supply of shock and imponderables… In my works, nothing is left to likelihood; every thing is meant, deliberate, and programmed. Liberty and feelings are solely current when selecting colours, a activity with just one self-imposed restriction: to be environment friendly in what I wish to say. It’s a mixture of each rationale and emotion. I don’t get impressed: I mirror.”
Carlos Cruz-Diez’s physique of labor, based mostly on three circumstances of shade: subtractive, additive and reflective is developed by eight strains of analysis: Couleur Additive, Physichromie, Induction Chromatique, Chromointerférence, Transchromie, Chromosaturation, Chromoscope and Couleur à l’Espace. Every of them responding to completely different behaviors of shade.
His works are within the everlasting collections of prestigious establishments such because the Museum of Fashionable Artwork (MoMA), New York; Tate Fashionable, London; Musée d’Artwork Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Effective Arts, Houston; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne; Geffen Modern, Museum of Modern Artwork (MOCA), Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard, Washington, D.C.; Louisiana Museum of Fashionable Artwork, Humlebæk.
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For extra on the artist, see https://www.cruzdiezartfoundation.org/old-carlos-cruz-diez
[Shown above, photo by Lorenzo Fiaschi: CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ ‘Environnement Chromointerférent’ 1974-2018, (detail), video, variable dimensions. Special project GALLERIA CONTINUA & ARDIAN. © Carlos Cruz-Diez / Bridgeman Images, 2023.]