JAMES TURRELL
Dhātu, 2010
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
JAMES TURRELL
Bindu Shards, 2010
Mixed media
165 11/16 x 257 1/8 x 239 inches (421 x 653 x 607 cm)
Bindu Shards, 2010
Mixed media
165 11/16 x 257 1/8 x 239 inches (421 x 653 x 607 cm)
JAMES TURRELL
Dhātu, 2010
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
James Turrell is an American artist that uses light as a material. He is interested in shifting the viewer's awareness away from autonomous pictures and objects towards the infrastructural process of looking at art. Turrell uses light to create unusual spaces where light can look solid and make objects appear to float.
At the gallery...
As I was approaching the piece "Bindu Shards" I got a feeling of being in a laboratory or part of some NASA studies. There were two assistants operating a huge white steel globe through a computer, both of them were wearing lab coats. I felt inmediately drawn to this piece and I wanted to know what it was all about, what it was inside. Unfortunately the day was fully booked so I couldn't have the chance to experiment all the lighting inside.
"Dhatu" is a magnificent light piece that greatly messes with all your senses. The piece can be viewed from three different angles, each one offers the viewer a different impression of the work. At first, seeing it by the corridor, the piece unfolds to me as a big screen offering a parade of lights changing colours, the steps or altar leading to the screen gives the feeling of being something mystic. In the other hand, when you look the piece from the front, the perception received is a completely one and it becomes an interactive piece. What it looks like a flat screen from the other side, it happens to be the entrance to another room. The viewers were welcome to enter into this room full of light and in a question of a few minutes something that looked completely impenetrable became a passage onto another reality, almost quite celestial. I found particularly beautiful the contour of people's bodies against the bright light as they were entering into the "screen". Inside this room there was another screen projecting the light, that changed from red to green, white to pink... the light was dense, like fog. The awareness of space became distortioned, there was not a real sense of limits in this room. I urged to compare the two realities, the view of the outside seemed too dull now lacking energy. I have never had appreciated light like that before and neither felt such a conceptual representation of space.
Dhātu, 2010
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
James Turrell is an American artist that uses light as a material. He is interested in shifting the viewer's awareness away from autonomous pictures and objects towards the infrastructural process of looking at art. Turrell uses light to create unusual spaces where light can look solid and make objects appear to float.
At the gallery...
As I was approaching the piece "Bindu Shards" I got a feeling of being in a laboratory or part of some NASA studies. There were two assistants operating a huge white steel globe through a computer, both of them were wearing lab coats. I felt inmediately drawn to this piece and I wanted to know what it was all about, what it was inside. Unfortunately the day was fully booked so I couldn't have the chance to experiment all the lighting inside.
"Dhatu" is a magnificent light piece that greatly messes with all your senses. The piece can be viewed from three different angles, each one offers the viewer a different impression of the work. At first, seeing it by the corridor, the piece unfolds to me as a big screen offering a parade of lights changing colours, the steps or altar leading to the screen gives the feeling of being something mystic. In the other hand, when you look the piece from the front, the perception received is a completely one and it becomes an interactive piece. What it looks like a flat screen from the other side, it happens to be the entrance to another room. The viewers were welcome to enter into this room full of light and in a question of a few minutes something that looked completely impenetrable became a passage onto another reality, almost quite celestial. I found particularly beautiful the contour of people's bodies against the bright light as they were entering into the "screen". Inside this room there was another screen projecting the light, that changed from red to green, white to pink... the light was dense, like fog. The awareness of space became distortioned, there was not a real sense of limits in this room. I urged to compare the two realities, the view of the outside seemed too dull now lacking energy. I have never had appreciated light like that before and neither felt such a conceptual representation of space.
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