- #JAMES TURRELL LIGHTSCAPE INSTALL#
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Turrell responded “While I am truly flattered to learn that Drake fucks with me, I nevertheless wish to make clear that neither I nor any of my woes was involved in any way in the making of the Hotline Bling video.” Bravo. Hotline Bling features him dancing in luminous rooms with Turrell-style ganzfeld effects. Hugely respected but largely unknown by the public he recently found increased fame following a video by Drake, a Canadian rapper. Skyspaces combine natural and artificial light to create a spiritual and emotional location for contemplative observation. James Turrell is one of the iconic figures of contemporary art, making work that is light based, often turning 2D projection in to 3D reality. The aperture can be round, ovular or square.” James Turrell Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. Willberg and printed in Italy, this hardback, cloth-covered publication is essential reading for all admirers of Turrell's oeuvre.“A Turrell Skyspace is a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky. The publication includes a foreword by David Cholmondeley, a text by Peter Murray, and an interview with the artist by Hiram C. The National Museum of Australia, Canberra has also hosted a major retrospective of his work which closed just as the exhibition at Houghton Hall opened.
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LightScape follows three highly acclaimed exhibitions by Turrell in 2013/14 at the Guggenheim, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition was complemented by further loans to help illustrate the broad spectrum of Turrell's work and a unique, site-specific installation was created especially for Houghton - 'The Illumination'- lighting the whole west facade of the house that could be viewed from dusk. The exhibition was centred around works from the Houghton collection, which also includes projections, a 'Tall Glass', holograms and prints. Soon afterwards, a rusty water tank was removed from an eighteenth-century folly in the park to make way for his atmospheric interior space, 'St Elmo's Breath'.
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He first discovered Turrell's work twenty years ago, and in 2000 invited him to Houghton to install a 'Skyspace' amongst the trees on the west side of the house.
This publication has been produced to document and to accompany the exhibition - a project devoted to James Turrell's work has been a long-held ambition of Lord Cholmondeley. In summer/autumn 2015, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, hosted an ambitious and significant exhibition of James Turrell's light pieces, many collected by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton, who has long been an admirer of his work.
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Here he has created a series of viewing chambers, tunnels and apertures to heighten our sense of the heavens and earth in one of the most ambitious artistic endeavours of modern times. Meanwhile, Turrell continues work on a monumental project at Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona.
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Perhaps his most celebrated works are his 'Ganzfeld' chambers, whole spaces immersed in light as well as his more recent 'Tall Glass' series, which resemble windows of slowly changing colour. Since then he has continued to create works using light as his medium. These are enclosed viewing chambers that affect our perception of the sky. From these investigations of light, Turrell went on to begin his series of 'Skyspaces'. His first exhibition in 1967 of 'projection pieces' used high-intensity light projectors to give the illusion of a solid geometrical object, often seemingly floating in space. His study of mathematics and perceptual psychology, as well as his Quaker upbringing and background as a pilot, inform his practice. From the mid 1960s onwards his principal concern has been the way we apprehend light and space.