Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923)

Acquired from the artist
Private Collection, New York

Mari-Carmen Ramírez, et al., Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, Houston, 2011, fig. 10, p. 329, another edition illustrated in color 

This work is in very good condition. A few faint surface scratches are present on the Plexiglas elements. All of the Plexiglas elements and motor parts are present, securely attached, and fully functional.
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Color is not simply the color of things surrounding us, nor is it the color of form. It is an evolving situation, a reality affecting human beings with the same intensity as cold, heat, sound, and so on.

It is a raw perception that, due to our cultural tradition, we are incapable of separating from either artistic color or its esoteric or anecdotal traits.

We should add that, under normal circumstances, color is perceptible in relation to what surrounds it; in an interaction, as Albers so clearly expressed it.

The goal of all my production and plastic exploration has been to separate color from this context and try to display it as an evolving autonomous reality.

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Paris, 1975