CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ: LIGHT AS A LIVED EXPERIENCE AT PAMM
The museum invites visitors to immerse themselves in a field of pure, perceptual color.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, an immersive light installation. Initially conceived in 1965, this marks its second presentation at the museum, following its debut in 2022. A pioneer of kinetic and optical art, Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923, Caracas; d. 2019, Paris) developed a singular visual language grounded in color, movement, and viewer participation. Through rigorous experimentation, he reconceived painting as a dynamic process, emphasizing color not as a fixed attribute but as a constantly shifting phenomenon.
The show marks Cruz-Diez’s most accomplished effort to project color into space as a lived, participatory experience. The installation consists of three interconnected chambers, each illuminated in a single hue: red, green, and blue. Immersed in this monochrome environment, the viewer experiences a kind of retinal overload, confronting the limits of visual perception. The work underscores color as an inherent property of light—a physical, temporal phenomenon that unfolds in real time as the viewer moves through the space.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, 1965/2007, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2022–23. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, 1965/2007, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2022–23. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, 1965/2007, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2022–23. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
By reimagining color as an embodied encounter, Chromosaturation exemplifies Cruz-Diez’s vital role in the experimental practices of the 1960s and 1970s, which shifted the focus from static art objects to participatory situations that engage the body, the senses, and subjective experience. His radical approach to perception anticipated the immersive and experiential strategies that define much of contemporary art today.
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