Carlos Cruz-Diez

He is president of the Fundación del Museo de la Estampa y del Diseño Carlos Cruz-Diez in Caracas and a member of the Order of Andrés Bello (OAB). In 2005 his family created the Cruz-Diez Foundation dedicated to the conservation, development, dissemination and research of his artistic and conceptual legacy.

Cruz-Diez proposes to conceive color as an autonomous reality that develops in time and in real space without the aid of form or the need for support. His work encompasses eight investigations: Couleur Additive, Physichromie, Induction Chromatique, Chromointerférence, Transchromie, Chromosaturation, Chromoscope and Couleur dans l’espace.

“Through my chromatic trajectory I try to evidence color as an ephemeral situation, as an autonomous reality in continuous mutation. It is a reality because the events take place in space and in real time. Without past or future, in a perpetual present. It is autonomous because its evidencing does not depend on the form or the anecdotal, not even on the support.” Carlos Cruz-Diez.