Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) announced a unique site-specific environment by world-renowned artist Carlos Cruz-Diez in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern. The exhibit builds on the success of its inaugural art installation, a 1926 underground city reservoir that BBP restored, repurposed, and revealed in 2016. “Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference” installation was unveiled on May 12, 2018 and will be on view through January 13, 2019.The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is reminiscent of the ancient Roman cisterns in Istanbul. It is a cavernous, 87,500-square-foot-space featuring more than 200 slender, 25-foot high concrete columns. The Cistern was rediscovered by BBP in 2010 when developing the $58-million Buffalo Bayou Park project, a 160-acre green space west of downtown Houston. BBP took a bold step to repurpose the Cistern into a magnificent public space. Along with tours highlighting the history and architecture of the Cistern, the group presents an ambitious program of changing art installations in this iconic space.For the second art installation, artist Cruz-Diez has created a site-specific "Spatial Chromointerference.” Regarded as one of the fathers and greatest figures of Kinetic and Optical art, Cruz-Diez’s wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects, and experimental works.“When Carlos Cruz-Diez expressed interest in working in the Cistern, we were not only honored but thrilled about the possibility of bringing his mastery of color and movement into this industrial space. The artist, the entire Atelier Cruz-Diez team, and Sicardi Gallery have all been incredibly generous with their time and resources to realize this truly immersive experience that will be unique to the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern,” says Judy Nyquist, BBP Board Member and Co-Chair of the organization’s Public Art Committee. "The Cistern’s distinctive architecture as well as its sheer size and raw interior, punctuated by a series of rhythmical columns, will make for an intriguing and interactive experience. Visitors to “Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference” will be encouraged to wear white or light colored clothing and will actively participate in viewing as the color changes create a sensation of movement,” he added.
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