After experiencing the “Light Installations” of James Turrell, I will never look at light in the same way. – - and since I had the opportunity to visit the retrospective at the Los Angeles Museum, I can vouch for that statement. The first article in the book, “Inner Light” by Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles museum, sets the tone for the book and the articles and interviews that follow expand on the theme: “I liken it to walking through the looking glass” he states. When dealing with the subject of artwork that is “made of light” this is of upmost importance.
#JAMES TURRELL A RETROSPECTIVE PLUS#
First it is loaded with images of the artist’s artwork! Equally important – the size of the book is adequate enough that the images have impact, plus the color prints are high quality. Fans of this highly influential artist will find much to savor in this wide-ranging and beautiful book, featuring specially commissioned new photography by Florian Holzherr. It also features an in-depth look at Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape near Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and drawings. Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell's career to date-from his early geometric light projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to recent two-dimensional experiments with holograms.
In fact, all of Turrell's work has been influenced by his life experiences with aviation, science, and psychology, and as a key player in Los Angeles's exploding art scene of the 1960s. Whether he's projecting shapes on a flat wall or into the corner of a gallery space, James Turrell is perpetually asking us to "go inside and greet the light"-evoking his Quaker upbringing. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell's incredibly diverse and exciting body of work-from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater.
Copublished with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the major touring retrospective and concurrent exhibitions at the Solomon R.
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