Carlos Cruz-DiezUntitled. 2007.

Original screenprint in colours. 2007.  Signed and dated in pencil. Numbered from the edition of 25. 

Provenance: Private Collection, USA.

In excellent condition. On wove paper. Sheet size: approx.: 310 x 470mm. Image: 260 x 400 mm.

Carlos Cruz-Diez was born in Venezuela but the repression of artistic ideas by the  regime in the 1950’s drove him, along with a whole group of other South American artists, to move to Paris. There he became a central figure in the kinetic art movement. This movement  was investigating how the visual interpretation of form could be modelled to induce a three-dimensional appearance and an effect of spatial movement through the interaction of  patterns of geometric form and the juxtaposition of colours.

In 1975 he wrote ‘colour is a reality which acts on the human senses with the same intensity as cold, heat or sound’. From very shortly after his arrival in Paris Cruz-Diez had a close association with Denise René whose left-bank gallery became the organising centre for kinetic or so-called ‘Op-Art’ ideas. The creative drama of his work quickly became recognised both in Europe and in the U.S.