Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with Ariel Jiménez

Carlos Cruz-Diez in Conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez is the first book in the Conversaciones/Conversations series. The product of conversations that took place over thirty years, in this book Ariel Jiménez offers the reader an in-depth account of the life and work of Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the key Latin American artists of the kinetic movement, who has undergone some of the most important transformations in the history of Latin American art.

Carlos Cruz-Diez was born in Venezuela in 1923 and traveled to Eastern Europe during the 1950s, absorbing the color theories of the Bauhaus and trends in geometric abstraction. Upon his return to Venezuela in 1957, he joined a group of artists who experimented with abstraction, Concrete art, Op Art, and Kinetic art. Cruz-Diez, along with his contemporaries Jesús Soto and Alejandro Otero, sought to explore the relationship between color and perception, a pursuit that continues in his works, installations, and public sculptures.