Better get tickets now for the next light show at the Cistern.
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership has commissioned legendary Carlos Cruz-Diez, known as a pioneer of kinetic and optical art, to create a unique site-specific environment that debuts May 12 and will be on view through Jan. 19, 2019.
“Carlos Cruz-Diez at the Cistern: Spatial Chromointerference” creates “a situation in space,” as a press release describes it, “involving the dematerialization, transfiguration and ambiguity of color through movement.”
Or you could just call it disorienting, in a fascinating way. Cruz-Diez wants to radically alter the way visitors perceive color.
— who are encouraged to wear white — will be enveloped as they move through the space, while 26 projectors cast moving lattices of light on the columns, interior walls, walkways and cubes floating in the cistern’s shallow pool. In the artist’s language, it’s about “projecting moving chromatic interference modules on objects and people” so that they become “transparent and virtually change condition and form.”
The artist imagines a space where everything loses its materiality.
Sounds like a cool experience, if you dare.
molly.glentzer@chron.com