Cruz-Diez in the new building of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A monumental work by master Carlos Cruz-Diez, who passed away in July 2019 at the age of 95, is part of the architectural space of the Nancy and Rich Kinder, the new building of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH), which is inaugurated this saturday 21 november.

The piece, entitled MFAH chromosaturation, It is one of the largest and brightest chromosaturations in Cruz-Diez, with an area of ​​over 380 square meters.

The Cruz-Diez Art Foundation, an organization created by the teacher’s family with the mission of preserving his works, explained that the MFAH chromosaturation It was presented in collaboration with Articruz, the artists’ atelier dedicated to the production of contemporary works of art.

“(The piece) is now a permanent feature of the museum and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you,” the foundation said on Instagram.

In the 22,000-square-foot Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts will house its collection of modern and contemporary art. The works of the Mexican Diego Rivera, the Argentine Xul Solar, the Brazilian Tunga and the Venezuelan Jesús Soto stand out.

Nancy and Rich Kinder is the third building of the MFAH. It was designed by Steven Holl Architects and will represent a prominent place for Latin American art collections, both of painting and sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, decorative arts, crafts, design, video and immersive installations.

“We have several rooms dedicated to Latin American art. Like no other museum in this hemisphere, we can show the development of modernism in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela “, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Gary Tinterow, told the Argentine newspaper on Monday during a guided tour. The nation. “We are proud of this diversity,” he stressed.

The other two buildings of the MFAH are the Caroline Wiess Law, designed in the 1920s by William Ward Watkin, and the Audrey Jones Beck, designed by Rafael Moneo in 2000. Together with the Nancy and Rich Kinder, they are connected by a garden of sculptures designed by Isamu Noguchi in 1986.

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