Carlos Cruz-Diez
Born: 1923
Died: 2019
I want people to realise that colour is not a certainty, but a circumstance, he said in 2014. Red is maybe red. It’s not the same if you hold an object under the sun as when you hold it in the shade.
Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist who is considered one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century. Cruz-Diez harboured a seven-decade obsession that the common understanding of colour was wrong. Colour, the Venezuelan-born artist believed, evolves continuously in time and space.
