The founding Director of MASS MoCA, Joeseph Thompson, underlines the significance of this grand-scale work: will be his largest free-standing piece ever. The future MASS MoCA’s Skyspace, titled C.A.V.U. The first Skyspace was produced by the artist in 1974, and since then Turrell has created over 80 of these public and private works worldwide. Namely, James Turrell’s Skyspaces function as naked-eye sky observatories which enable the visitor to contemplate by observing the celestial phenomena. Credit: James Turrell, Structure and Rendering by Darryl Cowie James Turrell - Skyspace, Structure and Rendering. The Skyspace will coincide with a retrospective of the works Turrell has produced during the course of his career, titled Into the Light, as well as a focused overview of the artist’s ceramics under the title Lapsed Quaker Ware. The new edition of this site-specific installation was initially considered by the artist when he first visited the venue in 1987. James Turrell and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) recently announced a new Skyspace that is about to be presented on the museum’s campus. The leading proponent of the Light and Space movement was James Turrell, a figure known for groundbreaking environments and site-specific works that act as peculiar portals for entering into the unknown, and therefore transcend the common notion of an artwork.Īside from the Roden Crater and the Light Inside, which are some of his best-known works, the artist has gained wider recognition for his Skyspace works, apertures in the ceiling open to the sky that are either autonomous structures or part of the existing architecture. The artworks categorized as the products of such articulation were most often experimental installations made on the thin line between art and science. The prime focus of the artists affiliated with it was the fascination with the perceptual phenomena, especially the light. The Light and Space movement appeared in the 1960s in Southern California as a synthesis of Op art, Minimalism, and Geometric Abstraction.
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