Carlos Cruz-Díez

The exhibition entitled Carlos Cruz-Díez: The Embodied Experience of Color, organized by the Miami Art Museum with the support of the SaludArte Foundation, Fundación Bancoro, Davos Financial Group, and the Fundación Mercantil, will remain open until June 20. Curated by Rina Carvajal, the exhibition centers on chromatic environments and interactive projects. Carvajal spoke about Carlos Cruz-Díez ¿ the renowned kinetic art creator during the 1950s ¿ whose interest was in experimenting with color, perception, and sensation during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Carvajal has pointed out that among the artists involved in experimental practices during that period, Cruz-Díez was one who discovered innovative ways of establishing a new understanding of art among the audience. His environments of the period could be regarded as thoroughly unique because of the type of direct interaction that these generate with the spectator-participant. They rejected the notion of an autonomous work of art and reaffirmed the spectator¿s role as a constitutive part of the aesthetical experience. The exhibition includes the piece Chromosaturation, a site-specific environment designed by Cruz-Díez that centers on the relationship between color and perception. Initially conceived in 1965 and presented for the first time in 1968 at the Ostwald Museum in Dortmund, Germany, this work consists of three independent chambers, one of each painted in red, green, and light blue. The real content of this work is generated by the visitor's experience of walking through the space and the chromatic interaction that unfolds over time through his/her physical movement. Carlos Cruz-Díez was recently chosen to create a large-format work that will be exhibited at the four-acre entrance plaza of the new Miami Marlins Stadium. The artist will use a paving system based on color, line, and visual perception as a system of signals located at the various Stadium entrances.