Tuesday, April 30
5 PM

Please join us for an event exploring Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez's in-depth experiments with color across material, organized in conjunction with Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color at Stake at ISLAA. This event will feature a lecture by Humberto Moro, deputy director of programs at the Dia Art Foundation, followed by a conversation with Ariel Aisiks, founder of ISLAA.

In encouraging his audience’s participation, Cruz-Diez occupies a singular place in the history of kinetic art. His work immerses us in a world in constant transformation, inviting viewers to reconsider color as a living, changing, and participatory phenomenon rooted in perpetual becoming. Focusing on the period from 1955 to 1988, Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color at Stake celebrates his contributions to the understanding of color as an experience that evolves in time and space, illuminating the key projects that established him as one of the foremost researchers on color theory in the twentieth century.

The event will take place at ISLAA, located at 142 Franklin Street in Tribeca. Seating is limited, and attendees are encouraged to register in advance. The program will be held in English. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Humberto Moro is Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation where he oversees the exhibitions, publications, and learning and engagement departments. He was previously deputy director and senior curator at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, where he curated OTRXS MUNDXS, a large-scale survey of artists working in the city, and solo shows by Erick Meyenberg, Tania Pérez Córdova, and Ugo Rondinone. He was curator of the 2021 Exposure section at EXPO Chicago; and from 2016 to 2022, adjunct curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, where he co-organized Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom and Points of Contact by Elizabeth Catlett, and solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Mariana Castillo Deball, AES+F, and Isaac Julien, among others. Moro has previously held curatorial positions at the Park Avenue Armory in New York and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Moro curated Other Situations, a project by Liliana Porter which included THEM, a theater play at The Kitchen, the reopening exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, and a publication. He was the recipient of the 2016 Estancias Tabacalera Research Award for Latin American curators, Madrid, Spain, and was part of the 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, in Gwangju, South Korea. Moro holds a BFA in painting from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato; and an MA in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; and was part of the 2021 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), where he became a trustee in 2023.