Carlos Cruz-Diez
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Carlos Cruz-Diez (born August 17, 1923 in Caracas , † July 27, 2019 in Paris ) was a Venezuelan artist ( Concrete Art ). He is considered an important representative of Op Art .
Life
From 1940 to 1945 he studied in Caracas at the local college of fine arts ( Escuela de Artes Plasticas y Aplicadas de Caracas ). In 1986 Cruz-Diez was appointed professor and director of the art department at the IDEA - Institut International d'Etudes Avancées in Caracas. Important categories of his artistic work are Transchromie (accessible installations), Couleur Additive ( color addition in the border area of two colors), Physichromie (varying light effects through movement), Induction Chromatique (optical afterimage ) and Environnement Chromointerférent (computer-controlled projection creates a space of vertically moving ones Light streak detected).
Public collections
Argentina
- Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires , exhibition
Brazil
- Museu de Arte Moderna , Rio de Janeiro
Chile
- Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende , Santiago
Germany
- Arithmeum , Bonn
- Museum for Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
- Museum Würth , Künzelsau
- Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud , Cologne
- Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
- New Pinakothek , Munich
- Museum of non-representational art , Otterndorf
France
- Center Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Ireland (Republic)
- Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Colombia
- Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango - Museo de Arte del Banco de la República , Santafé de Bogota
Poland
- Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi , Lodz
Portugal
- Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Switzerland
- Daros Latinamerica Collection , Zurich
- Haus Konstruktiv , foundation for constructive and concrete art, Zurich
United States
- Boca Raton Museum of Art , Boca Raton, FL
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , Houston, Texas
- Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation , Miami, FL
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
- Art Museum of the Americas , Washington, DC
Venezuela
- Galería de Arte Nacional , Caracas
United Kingdom
- Tate Britain , London (England)
- Tate Modern , London (England)
- Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Muere el artista venezolano Carlos Cruz-Diez, uno de los máximos exponentes del arte cinético , cnnespanol.cnn.com, accessed on July 28, 2019
- ^ Carlos Cruz-Diez: El color en el espacio y en el tiempo . ( Memento of March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cruz-Diez, Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan artist (concrete art) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caracas |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 2019 |
| Place of death | Paris |