The seminar stems from the wishes, concepts and intellectual legacy of Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Many of his ideas focus on the innovating and downright revolutionary idea to question the state of dependence of the color to the form. Carlos Cruz-Diez wanted to liberate the Color from its subservient condition to the Form. The color becomes then an event, a random experience subject to the specificity of the viewer’s situation.
The seminar will be the experimental field in which the students will be asked to elaborate and construct “a Labyrinth of Deconditioning”. The idea of the Labyrinth stems from an unrealized project by Carlos Cruz-Diez in which he visualized several chambers where, upon entering, the spectator’s perceptions would be challenged by an unusual experience. He nonetheless did realized one the chamber with floating colored light which he came to call later the “Chromosaturations”. It was first constructed in Paris in 1969 under the name “Labyrinth for a Public Place”.
The class coincides with a full exhibition of Cruz-Diez's work at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The show opens on February 5th.
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