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This book is the result of decades of conversations between curator Ariel Jiménez and the Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Their discussions provide compelling insights into Cruz-Diez's lifelong search to dematerialize color.
The seminal writing of Carlos Cruz-Diez, best known for his experiential works exploring color and its properties Trained as a painter, Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) developed a conceptual platform for his work based on optical and chromatic phenomena, which led him to take a revolutionary new approach to his work beginning in 1959. Building on the chromatic experiments of figures like Sir Isaac Newton, the impressionists, and Josef Albers, Cruz-Diez explored the perception of color as an autonomous reality evolving in space and time, unaided by form or support, in a perpetual present. Originally published in Spanish in 1989, Reflection on Color details Cruz-Diez's theories of color and trace...
"This book was published to accompany the exhibition Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, organized by and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 6-July 4, 2011."
Cruz-Diez en Blanco y Negro nos desvela una faceta desconocida del artista: su trabajo fotográfico en blanco y negro. El conjunto de imágenes que integran el libro, nos ofrece un testimonio de los caminos que el artista recorrió desde los primeros tiempos de su vida en Venezuela, en la década de 1940, así como de sus vivencias en Europa en las décadas de 1950 y 1960.
Reflection on Color is a re-edited and amplified edition of the origiinal book by Carlos Cruz-Diz, Reflextion on Color (1989). His work has been present in the greatest European exhibitions dedicated to Kinetic Art since the 60's, as well as in the most important collective exhibitions devoted to Latin American art. Carlos Cruz-Diez has work many of the most dignified museums worldwide, including, Muse National d'Art Modern Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, of which loaned works of Cruz-Diez for this exhibition, as with the private Foundation Allegro, the Altelier Cruz-Diez and MUGAB (Diputation of Alicante).
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The Food Network’s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to “keep the taste while you trim your waist.” As a pastry chef at Los Angeles’s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content. Today, he’s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and mak...