excellent exhibit. m.
Artist: Heimo Zobernig
Venue: Micheline Szwacjer, Belgium
Tag: Installation
Tom Burr at Franco Noero
sharp minimalist exhibit. m.
Artist: Tom Burr
Venue: Franco Noero, Turin
Exhibition Title: Promiscuous Pleats
‘Waterlicht’ — “The Northern Light of The Netherlands’ by Daan Roosegaarde
stunning etherial environmental installation. m.
from february 26 to march 1st 2015, passersby the flood channel of the netherland’s river ijssel can experience something incredible seemingly hovering in the dutch skies — the latest artwork by daan roosegaarde. ‘waterlicht’ — described by first visitors as the ‘the northern light of the netherlands’ — comprises undulating lines of light spreading across a site of over 4 acres. the collaboration between studio roosegaarde and the dutch water board rhine and ijssel materializes as ‘a combination of awareness and a dreamscape’, as described by the dutch artist and innovator. ‘by adding — aside from the latest LED-technology — experience and perception, we create a virtual flood.’
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james turrell interview
James Turrell: Artist
James Turrell 1943-present
Born: Los Angeles, California, United States
James Turrell was born in Los Angeles in 1943. His undergraduate studies at Pomona College focused on psychology and mathematics; only later, in graduate school, did he pursue art. He received an MFA in art from the Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. Turrells work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, says the artist, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire. Informed by his studies in perceptual psychology and optical illusions, Turrells work allows us to see ourselves seeing.
Whether harnessing the light at sunset or transforming the glow of a television set into a fluctuating portal, Turrells art places viewers in a realm of pure experience. Situated near the Grand Canyon and Arizonas Painted Desert is Roden Crater, an extinct volcano the artist has been transforming into a celestial observatory for the past thirty years. Working with cosmological phenomena that have interested man since the dawn of civilization and have prompted responses such as Stonehenge and the Mayan calendar, Turrells crater brings the heavens down to earth, linking the actions of people with the movements of planets and distant galaxies. His fascination with the phenomena of light is ultimately connected to a very personal, inward search for mankinds place in the universe. Influenced by his Quaker faith, which he characterizes as having a straightforward, strict presentation of the sublime, Turrells art prompts greater self-awareness through a similar discipline of silent contemplation, patience, and meditation. His ethereal installations enlist the common properties of light to communicate feelings of transcendence and the Divine. The recipient of several prestigious awards such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, Turrell lives in Arizona.
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Video — Paris’ Tour Montparnasse: A City-Scale Mirror by BIG Architects
creative large-scale architectural gesture by big — quite curious to see how it is received. m.
following an international competition launched in 2016, MAD architects has now revealed its renovation proposal for the famed parisian skyscraper, ‘tour montparnasse‘. the shortlisted design transforms the huge black monolithic building — positioned in the city center — into an artistic lighting installation that presents an upside down reflection of the city.
Video — Aluminum Cloudscape by The Berlin and Zurich-Based Studio FAKT
fantastic installation — love the historic context. m.
during the 2015 edition of the lively architecture festival, FAKT has realized an aluminium cloudscape that seems to weightlessly hover within a provincial courtyard in montpellier. the berlin and zurich-based studio have conceived ‘#034′ as a spatial and structural experiment — two sheets of 2mm thick aluminum undulates inside the semi-outdoor space, spanning a distance of 6.4 meters long by 4.5 meters wide. the two paper-like layers subtly bend, crinkle and wrinkle in juxtaposition with each other, creating apertures that allow visitors to peer through the installation to the other side of the courtyard.
‘our proposal searches for an installation that overcomes the object but instead transcends into phenomenon — the cloudscape,’ the studio says. ‘it is an attempt to enrich the structural nature of architecture with a strong sense of physical excitement and ever-changing visual properties. the topics of lightness, weightlessness and soft borders all translate into a floating world.’
Alphabet of Light by BIG and Artemide at Milan Design Week
crisp typo-graphics and lighting design. m.
italian lighting company artemide has worked with architect bjarke ingels of BIG to create the ‘alphabet of light’ lamps. exploring the language of light — quite literally — the alphabet series evolved from BIG’s creation of a new typeface that was translated and manifested as lighting modules that can be utilized either in straight or curved formats. presented during milan design week, the series use precise geometric proportions with elements that can be combined to build countless light structures, both essential and complex.
Powerplant by Bigert & Bergström
sharp photographic installation. m.
“stockholm-based artists bigert & bergström (mats bigert and lars bergström) explore and work
on creating photographic lighting installations based on molecular structures.”
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