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Carlos Cruz-Diez
1923 born in Caracas (VE)
lives and works in Paris and Caracas
Physiochromie 1455, 2006
Painted wood, plastic lamellae
80 x 80 x 2 cm
(c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2006/2007
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Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has numbered since the 1960s among the foremost proponents of Op Art. Apart from paintings and visual reliefs, his oeuvre also includes numerous sculptures and designs for building.
The most important element in his kinetic structures is the colour, which he thinks of as a chromatic event. His entire creative output is based on the conviction that colour is not a static phenomenon bound to a specific form or state of being, but a changing reality. Consequently, Carlos Cruz-Diez has adopted a fundamentally new attitude towards colour.
The artist has transposed these ideas about colour and kinetics into painterly reality by resolving the picture space completely into parallel strips of colour and superimposing a framework of coloured lamellae or ribbons on top of the painted surface. »Physiochromie 1455« is also constructed on these principles. The composition consists of a large number of painted vertical lines that vary in colour so as to create the impression of a number of intersecting squares when viewed from in front. Set vertically to the picture surface are numerous lamellae made of red, semi-transparent plastic, which act as the continuation of the parallel lines. The translucent red of the lamellae engages with the composition and leads to flowing sequences of chromatic variations that change with the direction in which the viewer moves. This interaction with the viewer dynamizes the colour and allows it to be experienced in all its immateriality. |
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