James Turrell: A Retrospective opens at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra on December 13. The show documents the Californian-born artist’s practice over almost 50 years, including his…
Posted on May 15, 2019 On this date in 2017, James Turrell opened the monumental art project he's been working on for more than 40 years to guests making big donations. An art project called Roden Crater. Roden Crater was a cinder cone - the remains of an ancient, extinct volcano - located in the Painted Desert of Arizona. And it wasn't for sale. This was back in the early 1970s. Artist James Turrell wouldn't take "no" for an answer; after working on the purchase for three years, he was able to buy Roden Crater. And then he was able to start building a naked-eye observatory for viewing the sun and the moon, winter and summer solstice, and other sky sights. What's the connection between a cinder cone and an observatory? Turrell is utilizing the remote location as a way of gaining darker night skies than most of us are used to. He's using the desert location as a way of gaining more sunny days and clear night skies than many other locations. And Turrell is utilizing the inner cone of the crater as a way of focusing our sight of the wide Western skies into a smaller viewpoint, a more narrow aperture. The observatory is not something that intrudes much into the desert landscape - it's what is called "minimally invasive" - and the tunnels and viewing spots inside the crater are specially engineered to create a truly different way of experiencing and seeing light. Now, when I first discovered that such a cool naked-eye observatory was being built - and so near me! - I assumed that there were one or two viewing spots within the crater. But there are TWENTY-ONE! And it may be that Turrell is planning an eventual 23 different viewing spots, plus six different tunnels connecting them! You can browse some of these spots, right now, before the observatory opens to the general public some time in the next five years, on this website. The lucky folks who already got to experience the Roden Crater had to pay quite a bit for their luck - they made $5,000 donations to Turrell's non-profit organization to fund further work. Some people kicked in another $1,500 for a hotel room, onsite dinner, and breakfast the following morning! Check out this video and this other video on Turrell's Roden Crater project, and this video that shows one of Turrell's other works (also seen in the still photo below). Also on this date: San Isidro Day in Madrid Straw Hat Day Archeologist Marta Rieche's birthday Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum's birthday Paraguay's Independence Day National Slider Day Birthday of activist Diane Nash Turn Beauty Inside Out Day (Third Wednesday of May) Plan ahead: Check out my Pinterest boards for: May holidays May birthdays Historical anniversaries in May And here are my Pinterest boards for: June holidays June birthdays Historical anniversaries in June
the james turrell skyspace at temple restaurant and museum in beijing has been specifically designed for sunset viewings.
For the past 40 years, artist James Turrell has been working on creating his most massive project yet, a largely unseen network of installations built inside a dormant volcano in the Arizona desert. The ambitious land artwork aims to turn the 2.5-mile wide crater into a series of rooms and tunnels...
American artist James Turrell's best-known work, Roden Crater, is now set to open to the public within the next few years.
Artista americano pioniere dell'arte ambientale, che ha dedicato la sua vita allo studio delle modalità di percezione umana della luce.
James Turrell has been an American artist for over half a century. With his training in perpetual psychology and childhood captivation with light, he began experiment with light in the 1960’s. Luck…
New works by Light and Space master James Turrell is to go on show at Pace London 6 Burlington Gardens 11 February to 27 March 2020.
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James Turrell’s largest free-standing circular Skyspace — titled C.A.V.U. — is now open on the MASS MoCA campus in North Adams, MA.
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Es más de medio siglo lo que James Turrell se ha encargado de honrar a la percepción, el espacio y la luz. Es difícil experimentar el verdadero significado de la palabra infinito, pero es aún más complicado tratar de encontrar ese significado por medio de la luz... James Turrell, un artista que transforma espacios, luces y neón en vida, lo ha venido haciendo, desde la década de los sesenta, con instalaciones que cuestionan nuestra comprensión sobre la percepción y la materialidad de la luz. "Uso la luz para explorar el significado de la percepción. Hago espacios que proyectan luz y la atrapan. Pero no hago la luz. La luz es un tesoro, una fuente de belleza y maravilla. La propiedad creativa no importa. Es como una sinfonía. ¿Cómo puedes ser el dueño de una sinfonía?" — Turrel para The Guardian, 2015.
As in the biblical act of creation, artist James Turrell likes to start with the light. Over the past five decades, he has used it and manipulated it to create a moving, mystical body of installation art designed to blast open our perceptions. And while his work will appear for a limited time this summer at the Venice Biennale and at Moscow’s Garage Center for contemporary culture, Turrell can always be found working on his eternal masterpiece—a crater in Arizona with a view of the universe.
James Turrell popola l’interno del Guggenheim di New York con nubi di tutti i colori dello spettro, introducendo i visitatori in un prisma ambientale racchiuso nella perlacea conchiglia di Wright.
Kanye West is obsessed with the idea of living inside a James Turrell installation, so for his birthday, the artist designed West a home.
We made the pilgrimage and spoke with the docent that overlooks the installation.
The new store for Mary-Kate and Ashley's fashion brand even has a James Turrell artwork at the entryway
This will be James Turrell's second solo exhibition at PACE and will consist of new works by the Light and Space master. Turrell is among the most influential artists of the past fifty years.
