The rich, color-drenched work of legendary Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez opens doors to a playful and intriguing universe of ideas and emotions. Primary colors come alive in vivid chromo-saturated spaces both grand and intimate, in a style that creates the illusion of movement and questions the very definition of color itself. After a groundbreaking seven-decade career, at age 94, Cruz-Diez embarked upon his most ambitious and ultimately final project: to free color from form, to liberate it from light, narrative and matter. Using a treasure trove of home movies, candid interviews and fly-on-the-wall perspectives, director Alberto Arvelo (The Liberator, PSIFF 2015) has crafted a lively and touching portrait of a unique and restless artist as gentleman; a generous and devoted father and grandfather whose practice was always a true family affair, and whose brilliance of mind was equal only to his openness of heart.

In competition for the Ibero-American Award

Director Alberto Arvelo, producers Gabriela Camejo and Paula Manzanedo-Schmit, and subject Gabriel Cruz are expected to be in attendance on January 4 and 5.