CARLOS CRUZ DÃEZ (Caracas, 1923-2019).
Untitled, 1992, from the Suite Olympic Centennial.
Silkscreen on 270 gsm Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 121/250.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Size: 63 x 90 cm.
The French-Venezuelan artist, Carlos Cruz-Diez, lived and worked in Paris since 1960. He is one of the most relevant protagonists of optical and kinetic art, an artistic current that claims "the awareness of the instability of the real". His research reveals him as one of the 20th century's thinkers of colour. The plastic discourse of Carlos Cruz-Diez gravitates around the chromatic phenomenon conceived as an autonomous reality that evolves in space and time, without the aid of form or support, in a continuous present. Carlos Cruz-Diez's works can be found in prestigious permanent collections such as those of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Modern in London, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, among others.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The artists chosen are defined by diverse movements and pictorial trends, from the conceptualism and minimalism of "Ben" Vautier, the lyrical abstraction of Yasse Tabuchi, the painting of Oleg Tselkov which concentrates on the human figure, intensely expressive and treated with forceful forms and intense colours that seek to reflect the conflicts and violence of his time, and finally the work of André Arabis, clearly abstract and geometric.