Immersive Light Installation by Renowned Kinetic Artist Returns to PAMM. Opening October 2, 2025.
(MIAMI, FL — September 17, 2025) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to present Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, opening October 2, 2025. Initially conceived in 1965, this marks the second presentation of Chromosaturation at PAMM, following its debut installation at the museum in 2022.
A pioneer of kinetic and optical art, Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923, Caracas; d. 2019, Paris) developed a singular visual language grounded in color, movement, and viewer participation. Through rigorous experimentation, he reconceived painting as a dynamic process, emphasizing color not as a fixed attribute but as a constantly shifting phenomenon.
Chromosaturation marks Cruz-Diez’s most accomplished effort to project color into space as a lived, participatory experience. The installation consists of three interconnected chambers, each illuminated in a single hue: red, green, and blue. Immersed in this monochrome environment, the viewer experiences a kind of retinal overload, confronting the limits of visual perception. The work underscores color as an inherent property of light––a physical, temporal phenomenon that unfolds in real time as the viewer moves through the space.
By reimagining color as an embodied encounter, Chromosaturation exemplifies Cruz-Diez’s vital role in the experimental practices of the 1960s and 1970s, which shifted the focus from static art objects to participatory situations that engage the body, the senses, and subjective experience. His radical approach to perception anticipated the immersive and experiential strategies that define much of contemporary art today.
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Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer Director, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 41-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013, in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.
