CARLOS CRUZ‑DIEZ AT CAYÓN: A LEGACY OF COLOR THEORY
El plano inestable (The Unstable Plane) upholds Carlos Cruz‑Diez’s investigative legacy in an exhibition that delves into the exploration of chromatic autonomy and dynamism while incorporating the visitor’s perception and experience.
Cayón presents The Unstable Plane in Madrid, the eighth solo exhibition the gallery has dedicated to Carlos Cruz‑Diez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1923–Paris, France, 2019). The show brings together a selection of eight square‑format works from the Physichromies, Inductions Chromatiques, and Couleur Additive series. This exhibition continues the theoretical reflection initiated in previous gallery events, the most recent being Color as Action, held at the Menorca location in 2021.
Created between 2007 and 2018, the selected works reflect the result of the Franco‑Venezuelan artist’s progressive and constant research into the autonomy of color throughout his life. Since the late 1950s, Cruz‑Diez proposed a radical conception of color, removed from pictorial technique and tradition that confined it as mere material applied to a fixed surface.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: El plano inestable. Physichromie, 1976. Cortesía de Galería Cayón
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: El plano inestable. Couleur Additive N°353, Paris, 2016. Cortesía de Galería Cayón
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: El plano inestable. Vista de exposición. Cortesía de Galería Cayón
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: El plano inestable. Vista de exposición. Cortesía de Galería Cayón
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: El plano inestable. Vista de exposición. Cortesía de Galería Cayón
These series also explore sensory and perceptual phenomena such as the visitor’s movement through space, new physical concepts of how light and color radiate, the dynamism of chromatics, and the creation and emergence of virtual tones. The Unstable Plane complements the theoretical lines of Cruz‑Diez’s work and reaffirms the thesis that color is primarily observed but can also be perceived differently depending on each viewer’s experience.
Carlos Cruz‑Diez. El plano invisible is on view until February 25th, 2026 at Galería Cayón, Blanca de Navarra 7–9, Madrid, Spain.
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