![]() ![]() Museum-quality poster made on thick and durable matte paper. James Turrell: A Retrospective LACMA - 6 April 2014 Review by Siofra McSherry. To encounter a work by American artist James Turrell is to enter another world-a realm where eye and mind meet. ![]() Kim and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. “In a way,” explains the artist, “light unites the spiritual world with the ephemeral, physical world.” James Turrell: A Retrospective by Govan, Michael & Christine Y. It is by far the best collection on Turrells work to date and I highly recommend not only purchasing the. The book is co-authored by LACMAs dynamo director and major Turrell supporter Michael Govan. This triggers a paradox phenomenon: the visitor‘s attention turns from outside to inside, changing into a kind of meditative observing. This book is the catalogue for a major, year-long retrospective on James Turrell at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art starting in May of 2013. Turrell uses the German word "Ganzfeld" to installations like Purusa, in which visitors enter a room that seems to have no limits, with its own, especially composed light sequence. One section is devoted to the Turrell masterwork in process, Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, presented through models, plans, photographs, and films. The exhibition included early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, and recent two-dimensional work with holograms. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. James Turrell: A Retrospective (2013-14) explored nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. This iconic LACMA poster featuring Purusa, 2011 (from the Ganzfeld series) by James Turrell is a remarkable piece of art history. Other print sizes (in inches) available per request. ![]() James Turrell LACMA Retrospective replica poster ![]()
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