Following the exhibit Cruz-Diez commemorating the 60th anniversary of the artist’s first solo exhibit in Spain and Europe, Galería Cayón is pleased to install, in its gallery at Blanca de Navarra 9, Chromointerference, a work by which Cruz-Diez presents one of his participatory environments.

Cruz-Diez is widely considered as a premier protagonist of the Kinetic movement. His investigations on the phenomenon of color, dating back to 1954,  have altered the art world’s views on the perception of color and have created a new grammatical universe.

This installation focuses on one of Cruz-Diez’s eight lines of research, namely, chromointerference, or in other words, those chromatic interferences capable of generating new colors not really found in the support. In this case, the chromatic modules are light projections in constant motion which invade and transform the space. In the artist’s own words, “the purpose of these Chromointerferent Environments is to create a situation of immateriality, of transfiguration and chromatic ambiguity, by means of movement.”

Viewers will find themselves immersed in a constantly moving and actively participatory situation. This, in turn, produces a dialogue between the chromatic interferences and the viewers, whose shadows alter and are simultaneously altered by the work. Such a chromatic event enfolds the viewer, transforms him, and at the same time, allows itself to be transformed by him. Thus, rather than contemplation, what occurs is a vital experience where color appears as an autonomous reality, and the work of art is a perpetual, instant present.

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