Tuesday, October 14, 2008
6:30 p.m.
The King Juan Carlos of Spain Center-NYU
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY
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This multidisciplinary panel will focus on theories of perception, phenomenology, and the development of spectator participation in artworks such as Carlos Cruz-Diez' Cromosaturación and Pedro Reyes' Leverage.

Speakers:

• Nuit Banai, (Art Historian)
• Marisa Carrasco, (Chair of Psychology, New York University)
• Pedro Reyes, (Visual Arts)
• Edward Sullivan, Moderator (Dean of Humanities, New York University)

This fall, Americas Society presents Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution: Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase Cruz-Diez's visibility and appreciation in the United States, one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Isabela Villanueva at ivillanueva@as-coa.org or call 212-277-8367.

This event is organized in colaboration witht he King Juan Carlos Center, New York University, and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.

_{Carlos Cruz-Diez, Fisicromía no. 500, 1970. Image courtesy of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.}