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2/9. Exhibition View: Vertigo.Op Art and a History of Deception 1520–1970 / May 25 to October 26, 2019 From left to right: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Via Appia, Via Adreatina, from: Le Antichità Romane II, 1756; Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie Nr. 417, 1968; Richard Anuszkiewicz, Union of the Four, 1961; Bridget Riley, Hesitate, 1964; Erika Giovanna Klien, Diving Bird, 1939
The French-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez, represented in Vertigo with a work from the 1960s, created a "promenade cromatique" for the stairway from the MQ courtyard to the mumok entrance. The floor work offers a first notion of a game of perception, before the visitors enter the exhibiton spaces themselves.
RM2A1AJ3A – Multicoloured painted steps 'Promenade Chromatique Vienne' by Carlos Cruz-Diez outside MUMOK art gallery in the Museums Quarter of Vienna, Austria. RF 2GEM7GD – National History Museum Vienna at the museum quarter - VIENNA, AUSTRIA, EUROPE - AUGUST 1, 2021
2/9. Ausstellungsansicht: Vertigo.Op Art und eine Geschichte des Schwindels 1520–1970 / 25.Mai bis 26. Oktober 2019 Von links nach rechts: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Via Appia, Via Adreatina, aus: Le Antichità Romane II, 1756; Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie Nr. 417, 1968; Richard Anuszkiewicz, Union of the Four, 1961; Bridget Riley, Hesitate, 1964; Erika Giovanna Klien, Diving Bird, 1939
The exhibition "Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520–1970" presents a puzzling world of sensory illusion, comprising a broad spectrum of works including paintings, reliefs, and objects, installations and experiential spaces, and film and computer generated art.
Carlos Cruz-Diez (17 August 1923 – 27 July 2019) was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been "one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century." Wikidata Q1042835
Jul 29, 2019 · On 27 July, Venezuelan kinetic and optical artist Carlos Cruz-Diez passed away at the age of 95, at home in Paris. In remembrance of his life and the impact he left on the art and design world, we are publishing an interview held with Diez for Frame 122, our May/June 2018 issue.
