Carlos Cruz-Diez in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez
<p><em>Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez</em> distills over three decades of wide-ranging conversations between preeminent Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez and then FC/CPPC Chief Curator Ariel Jiménez. A pioneer in color theory and perception, Cruz-Diez and such artists as Alejandro Otero and Jesús Rafael Soto launched the abstract movements that placed Venezuelan art among the international avant-garde during the 1950s.</p> <p>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. He continues to pursue his interest in the relationship between color and perception in installations, environments and public sculptures.</p>
Authors: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ariel Jiménez
Contributors: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
Editors: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Ileen Kohn, Donna Wingate
Project Manager: Satoshi Tabuchi
Researcher: Sara Meadows
Translators: Kristina Cordero
Copy Editor: Carrie Cooperider, María Esther Pino, Mariana Barrera-Pieck, Amelia Sosa-Zimerman, Audrey Walen
Part of: Conversaciones/Conversations
ISBN: 9780988205512