Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019)

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Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019)
Physichromy number 1313. Relief, silk-screen printing in colors on aluminum and black lacquered PVC slats. Edition of three copies made in Paris in June 1999. Label on the back with the print receipt (3/3) and the handwritten signature of the artist. 40 x 60 cm. One PVC strap damaged. We thank the Cruz-Diez Foundation for confirming the inclusion of the work in the catalog raisonné in preparation, under the reference 23265. Carlos Cruz-Diez is a French artist of Venezuelan origin who became a major figure of kinetic and optical art in the 1960s, following the example of Vasarely and the artists of the GRAV group. Exhibited in the greatest museums in the world (MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern), he developed his chromatic research around eight axes: Additive color, Chromatic induction, Chromointerference, Transchromy, Chromosaturation, Chromoscope, Color in Space. The work presented here corresponds to the eighth axis, physichromy, which etymologically refers to the physics of color. In these works, the perceptions of colors are varied and changing according to the displacement of the glance and the luminosity of the place of exposure. The colors appear and disappear, mix to create new chromatic ranges absent from the support but recreated in the eye of the spectator, not without recalling the optical theories. By abolishing the border between the work and the real space, Carlos Cruz-Diez creates four-dimensional works that interact in a direct and physical way with their viewer.
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