Carlos Cruz Diez " Color in Space and Time"

"Through color I experience a feeling of complete identification with space. I am totally free" Carlos Cruz Diez

This highly recommended museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary. And, in this occasion, it is the museum the one that is giving us a wonderful present: the exhibition of Carlos Cruz-Diez.: “El color en el espacio y en el tiempo” (Color in space and time).

Born in Caracas, he has lived and worked in Paris since 1960. He first emerged as an artist in the mid 1950s as part of the Kinetic Art Movement in Paris. His work has been dedicated to showing how color can be transformed into an autonomous event capable of invading space.

The incorporation of new series has continuosly evolved over the last five decades through the incorporation of new materials, supports, and assembling techniques, resulting in an extremely rich and arresting array of visual effects.

Chromo-Indiference Environment by Carlos Cruz Diez

Cruz-Diez ‘ works are in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.

In Cruz Diez´s case, the label “kinetic” or “cinetico”, became the initial , generic branding that stuck, regardless of any other outstanding trait embedded in this work, such as color. And yet, it may be time to acknowledge that, to the extent that he did not participate in Le Mouvement – the influential 1995 show held at the Galerie Denise René in Paris, which is credited for having launched the Kinetic Art movement – such a marker is not only inaccurate but misleading. As the artist himself explains in the exhibition catalogue, while Kinetic art provided a starting point or an operational matrix upon which to ground his proposal, the notion of “movement” was never the single aim or raison d´etre of this unedited project to approach both painting and color in quite different terms.

This exhibition will be in Buenos Aires until March 2012.

You cannot miss this unforgettable experience!!!

Malba – Fundación Costantini

Avda. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 Buenos Aires, Argentina T +54 (11) 4808 6500 F +54 (11) 4808 6599
http://www.cruz-diez.com/ http://www.malba.org.ar/