James Turrell Skyspace

James Turrell (b. 1943) has built more than eighty of his 'Skyspace' installations worldwide since 2000 — meditative chambers, often at museums, universities, and private estates, with a single rectangular or oval aperture cut cleanly through the ceiling. The walls are washed with slowly changing programmed light at dawn and dusk; the aperture-framed patch of sky appears to shift dramatically in colour against the interior illumination. Each Skyspace recalibrates the viewer's perception of colour and atmosphere, turning the relationship between bounded architecture and open sky into the material of the artwork and making Turrell a central figure in contemporary contemplative art.

Exhibition Venue

Centre for International Light Art

Unna, Germany