The Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate joins Cristea Roberts Gallery

Cristea Roberts Gallery announced global representation for the original prints from the Carlos Cruz-Diez Estate, the Estate’s first gallery representation in London. Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923 - 2019) was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied art at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Aplicadas, Caracas, from 1940 to 1945, before working in illustration and advertising. The artist's paintings, sculptures and prints, architectural interventions and site-specific installations, alongside his research and writings, make him one of the great twentieth-century thinkers and innovators in the realm of colour. His radical approach to art anticipated the immersive and experimental works that define much of contemporary art today. The artist made a significant body of printed work throughout his lifetime, returning to printmaking at important points in the development of his research and practice. He worked almost exclusively in screenprint, in later years expanding his use of the medium to incl