Tuesday, April 28
5 PM
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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 program at the Dia Art Foundation, followed by a Q&A and a reception.

The lecture will delve into Cruz-Diez’s relationship to language, amid a historical time when were artists were developing new worlds and rules. Drawing from Moro’s intensive contact with the artist during several engagements at the SCAD Museum of Art and beyond, he returns to the artist’s practice nearly a decade later. His talk will offer an introduction to Cruz-Diez’s work, focusing on how color shifts, activates, and transforms through light, space, and movement. The event offers an opportunity to encounter one of the most influential approaches to color in twentieth-century art.

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. At Dia he has curated exhibitions by Liliana Porter, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tehching Hsieh, Hélio Oiticica as well as upcoming commissions by Alan Ruiz and Fernanda Gomes. 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 2016-22, 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 curated solo exhibitions by Kenturah Davis, Glen Fogel, Alex Gardner, Oliver Laric, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Pia Camil, Mariana Castillo Deball, Tom Burr, Yang Fudong, FOS, AES+F, Mark Wallinger, Isaac Julien, and Anna Maria Maiolino, 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 a MA in curatorial studies by the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), 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.