Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019)[1] was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century."[2]
His first public artwork in the United States, Double Physichromie, an ongoing exploration of his Physichromie series, which began in 1959, was installed in the campus of the University of Houston in 2009 and re-sited in 2018.[7]
Exhibitions
Physichromies de Cruz-Diez: Oeuvres de 1954 à 1965, Galerie Kerchache, Paris, France, 1965.
Cordoba Has III Bienal Interamericana de Arte, Cordoba, Argentina, October 1966.
Physichromies, Couleur Additive, Induction Chromatique, Chromointerferences, Galerie Denise René, 1971, New York, NY.
Venezuelan Art Show presented by the Consulate General of Venezuela, Galeria Venezuela, New York, NY, October 1980.
Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricica Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August–November 2001.
Geométriques et cinétiques, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brésil Cruz-Diez, Galerie d'art de Créteil, France. Cruz-Diez, Galerie Lavigne Bastille, Paris, 2002.
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^"Carlos Cruz-Diez | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
^"CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ: CHROMOSATURATION AT PAMM". www.artealdia.com. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time (February 6–July 4, 2011)". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Artnexus". www.artnexus.com. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^Hern, Julián; ez (18 January 2018). "CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ EN EL MUSEO WÜRTH LA RIOJA". ARS Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Public Art of University of Houston System Remembers Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez". www.uh.edu. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color".
^"Within the Light Trap: Carlos Cruz-Diez in Black and White". Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
^"Evolving Color 2014".
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez at Marlborough Gallery, Monaco". Art Media Agency. 18 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
^Grishin, Sasha (27 May 2015). "Intense and immersive: Light Show at the Museum of Contemporary Art". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
^"Obras de Carlos Cruz-Diez se exhiben en Alemania". El Universal (Caracas). 7 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
^"Mastering colour: Franco-Venezuelan kinetic and op artist Carlos Cruz-Diez at Puerta Roja, Hong Kong". Art Radar Journal. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez inaugurates Phillips' new exhibition platform". Wallpaper. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
^"Carlos Cruz-Diez Wins The Turner Medal For Colour 2015". artlyst. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
Other sources
Bann, Stephen. Four Essays on Kinetic Art. St. Albans: Motion Books 1966.
Brett, Guy. Kinetic Art. New York: Reinhold Book Corporation 1968.
Frank PopperOrigins and Development of Kinetic Art, Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968
Chacon, Katherine. Carlos Cruz-Diez: Cultural Center of the Fundacion Corp Group Art Nexus no. 44 April/June 2002
Glueck, Grace. ART REVIEW: A Universe of Art, Centered in Boston. New York Times August 17, 2001.
Latin American Research Review Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn, 1967), pp. 189–90
On Campus: The University of Texas at Austin September 13, 1999 Constructive Horizons: The Latin American Perspective.
Yunes, Gladis. Luisa Richter: Museo de la Estampa y del Diseno Carlos Cruz-Diez. Art Nexus no. 43 Ja/Mr 2002
Atwood, Roger, Making Color 3D, ARTnews, New York, vol. 111, No. 10, November 2010.
Cruz-Diez, Carlos (15 July 2009). Carlos Cruz-Diez: Reflection on Color. Fundacion Juan March. ISBN 978-84-89935-91-4.
Suarez, Osbel (15 July 2009). Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color Happens. Fundacion Juan March. ISBN 978-84-7075-563-7.
Chanson, Marion[permanent dead link] (2011-03-24) L'Atelier de Carlos Cruz-Diez (The Studio of Carlos Cruz-Diez), bilingual English and French, Thalia Edition, ISBN 978-2352781004
External links
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