Galería Cayón is pleased to present “Cruz-Diez. El color como acción” (Cruz-Diez. Color as action), an extension of the exhibition shown at our Menorca space during the summer months. This is, without a doubt, the most special exhibition since Cayón began representing Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1923-Paris, France, 2019) almost a decade and a half ago, as it is the first since his death in the summer of 2019 at the age of 95.

It is also one of the most ambitious exhibitions conceived for a gallery by the creator, as it is made up of a series of works created between 2008 and 2019, a period considered by Cruz-Diez to be his most fertile period, as he always said that he had found in recent times - and after half a century of researching and adding technical means and advances - the chromatic subtlety that he had been determinedly seeking since 1959.

The exhibition can therefore be considered a compendium of the lines of work that defined his production. Cruz-Diez was clear that demonstrating the “autonomy of colour” could only be done, with the didactic and scientific zeal that always characterised him, through various paths of work, all equally valid and important, indeed, all essential.

In recent years, Carlos Cruz-Diez was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2012), participated in the 2014 Liverpool Biennial and was awarded the Turner Medal (2015) and the Trebbia International Prize (2016). His work has been recognised in numerous exhibitions around the world, with his most recent exhibitions in China (held between 2010 and 2014) being the most visited. His work is part of the collection of prestigious museums such as The Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Georges Pompidou Art Centre, Paris; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris or The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among many others. Carlos Cruz-Diez will represent France at the 2020 Dubai World Expo, suspended last year due to the pandemic, which will open in October 2021.