Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Carlos Cruz-Diez: 50 ans de recherche, November 18, 2009–February 17, 2010
New York, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, May 2–June 28, 2013 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Paris, Galerie Denise René, que de la sculpture, November 30, 2017–January 20, 2018 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Venezuelan • 1923 - 2019
Carlos Cruz-Diez moved from his native Caracas to Paris in 1960. He is a major protagonist in the field of kinetic and Op Art, a movement based on "an awareness of the instability of reality."
Inspired by such artists as Georges Seurat and Josef Albers, his work focuses on the kinetic energy of color and its existence as an autonomous and evolving reality, independent from form or structure. Much of his work, in particular his Physichromie series, is created by plotting lines of contrasting color alongside each other, creating an illusion of movement as the viewer's position relative to the artwork shifts.
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