light has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, religious thinkers and artists. how does it affect our emotions and sensations? ‘licht, mehr licht!’ or ‘light, more light!’ are the last words spoken by goethe, a novelist who was also fascinated by the optical sciences. this mysterious incident is reminiscent of near death experiences — tunnels of light, also known as tunnels of death. guillaume marmin drew inspiration from this theme to create an immersive installation that explores the links between light, sound and space.
Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan filled a darkened room with fifty disco balls and created colored and timed lighting sequences to cast mesmerizing reflections that surround visitors. However, rather than simply relying on scattershot reflections, McDonald and Jongejan used hundreds of structured light scans to capture the volumetric position of every pixel being projected by each of the three projectors. The pair then used SketchUp to predict the reflected pixel positions.
Models walked through an archway of rainbow-hued lasers at Burberry’s London Fashion Week show, which featured light installations by London studio United Visual Artists.
The brand’s autumn winter 2018 presentation — the last to be overseen by creative director Christopher Bailey — took place on Sunday, 18 February as part of this year’s London Fashion Week.
American artist Larry Bell has created a series of huge boxes using translucent and coloured glass, which are designed to evoke the morning fog that rolls in from the coast of California.
Venice Fog: Recent Investigations is an installation involving a series of cube-like sculptures made from semi-transparent and soft-hued glass. Each sculpture comprises a larger enclosure formed by four laminated panels, without a top or base, with a smaller box positioned inside.
for one that is not typically a huge fan of bricks i find this simply beautiful
kimmel eshkolot architects developed the scheme as an interior project where the ground was excavated to allow daylight to enter. conceived as both a personal and collective structure, the light that enters through the overhead oculus is filtered through the funnel and onto the interior surfaces. several 1:1 mockups of the project were built at ETH zurich. here, the architects, together with ackerstein industries and merkava, developed a construction method that involved concrete bricks screwed together at pre-cut joints.
“United Visual Artists’ Alexandros Tsolakis discusses how it teamed up with MINI to create Parallels, a light installation for the 2014 Milan Furniture Fair that explores the rapidly-changing relationship between man and technology.”
Artist Emmanuelle Moureaux used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create this multihued installation designed to visualise the passing of time.
On show at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design in Toyama, Japan, the Colour of Time installation is part of a series of exhibitions that aim to explore the different functions of materials.
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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