Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez

Author: Ariel Jiménez
Language: English and Spanish
Publication date: September 2010
ISBN: 9780982354421

Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez is the first book in the Conversaciones/Conversations series. Based on conversations that occurred over a span of thirty years, Ariel Jiménez provides a deep and engaged account of the life and work of Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of Latin America’s foremost artists, and a leading practitioner of Kinetic and Op art. Born in Venezuela in 1923, Cruz-Diez traveled in Western Europe throughout the 1950s, absorbing Bauhaus color theory and trends in geometric abstraction. He returned to Venezuela in 1957 to help initiate a massive wave of experimentation in Abstract, Concrete, Op and Kinetic art. Along with his fellow artists Jesús Soto and Alejandro Otero, Cruz-Diez shared an interest in the relation between color and perception, which he has continued to pursue in installations, environments and public sculptures.

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