CHROMOINTERFERENCES: Carlos Cruz-Diez

In 1964, Carlos Cruz-Diez developed a new investigation that he called Cromointerference, based on the frames of his Couleurs Additives. To the pattern of colored lines, he superimposed another one made of black stripes, printed on a transparent material and placed at a certain distance from the background. The interaction between the lines in space produced a whole range of colors that were not on the support.

However, there was a type of Cromointerference, conceived between ‘64 and ‘65, which he then failed to manufacture as he imagined it. They are the Spatial Cromointerferences, in which the black pattern does not require a transparent support but is materialized in space with stretched elastic stripes.

Manufacture of this type of Chromointerference only began in January 2015, when the latest technology made it possible to build what the artist had conceived fifty years earlier. In this exhibition we show these works for the first time, as a clear demonstration of the color pursued by Cruz-Diez: being made in real time and space, beyond form and support.