Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri publishes 'Carlos Cruz-Diez鈥檚 Physichromies: Between Centre and Periphery', Autumn 2019
Natalia Sassu Suazrez Ferri publishes with Tate Papers, Autumn 2019.
In 1959 the Franco-Venezuelan kinetic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez developed his first abstract series of works, named the Physichromies. These works have often been understood to show Cruz-Diez鈥檚 abandonment of his national identity and his wholesale adoption of European modernism. This article offers a different account of the Physichromies, arguing that Cruz-Diez鈥檚 engagement with the language of European modernism remained closely connected to both Venezuelan and 鈥楢merican鈥� forms of identity.