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Wednesday 22-Apr-2009 - Friday 12-Mar-2010

Astounding light installtions and other work by James Turrell

Land art aficionados are used to having to make long, difficult pilgrimages to the middle of nowhere to view such epic monuments as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) or Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977). Now they have another destination to bear in mind: Colomé, Argentina, the site of the new James Turrell Museum at the Hess Art Collection, which currently enjoys notoriety as the ‘highest’ art space in the world, plonked as it is at 2,300 metres above sea level in the Andean mountains. Designed by Turrell himself, the museum will include nine light installations that showcase the artist’s conceptual preoccupation with light. 

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  Sculpture

  Art Period:

  Contemporary (1965-today)

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  The Estancia Colome houses the James Turrell Hess Art Collection, offering 1680 square meters of exhibition space, the first such museum dedicated solely to this artist's astounding light installations and other work.

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  Comment: Guest Stars Pt. 2

   

  The second in a two-part essay about artists on television. Part one: James Franco on General Hospital Between November 2009 and July 2010, James Franco appeared on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (1963–ongoing). The actor, best known for the Oscar-nominated Milk (2008), the Spiderman franchise and the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), has branched out to explore the possibilities of working as an actor within the framework of performance art. Fra...

   

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  Published 27-Jul-10
  Source: www.frieze.com

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  Comment: Guest Stars Pt. 2

   

  The second in a two-part essay about artists on television. Part two: James Franco and Kalup Linzy on General Hospital Between November 2009 and July 2010, James Franco appeared on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (1963–ongoing). The actor, best known for the Oscar-nominated Milk (2008), the Spiderman franchise and the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), has branched out to explore the possibilities of working as an actor within the framework of performa...

   

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  Published 27-Jul-10
  Source: www.frieze.com

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  NEWS: Battle Lines Drawn in James Turrell Case

   

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  Published 08-Jun-10
  Source: artforum.com

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  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Presents "ColorForms"

   

  WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum presents "ColorForms," an exhibition devoted to the exploration of color and abstract form through a variety of media, March 11 through winter 2011. Organized by associate curator Evelyn Hankins and located in the lower-level galleries, the exhibition highlights artworks from the Hirshhorn's collection that date from 1949 to the present, including two major recent acquisitions: Paul Sharits' four-projector film installation, "Shutter I...

   

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  Published 11-Mar-10
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  Front: When Italy was Modern

   

  The resurgence of interest in two pioneering Italian Modernists demonstrates the European avant-garde’s influence on a new generation of artists. Towards the end of the 1950s, economic growth and rapid developments in technology, transport and telecommunications began to improve the general standard of living in Western Europe, and, following the horror and devastation of the war, nurtured a greater belief in the future. There was also a return to the teachings of the histor...

   

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  Published 09-Feb-10
  Source: www.frieze.com

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  Fresh Links!

   

  David Zwirner’s ‘Primary Atmospheres’ Is California Sweet - Page 1 - Art - New York - Village Voice Christian Viveros-Fauné brings a lot to this show, but as a friend wisely remarked on a James Turrell light piece resembling a triangular slat in the show “Don’t you love art that makes you go…”Op! No it’s not!” ...

   

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  Published 05-Feb-10
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  Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil Jona / Stürm Wolf Architects

   

  At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury states that “The building task is perceived as perfectly solved for an artspace; all the daylight is coming from the built annex...

   

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  Published 01-Feb-10
  Source: vernissage.tv

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  AO On Site – Stockholm: Sol Lewitt “Seven Wall Drawings” at Magasin 3 Konsthall through June 6, 2010

   

  Installation of Sol Lewitt’s ”Wall Drawing #422” (November 1984) via Magasin 3 Currently on view at Magasin 3 Konsthall is “Seven Wall Drawings” by Sol Lewitt.  The exhibition, spanning the artists’ prolific career, takes the line as its theme. It is a motif to which Lewitt constantly returned, working, according to the exhibition’s curator Elisabeth Melqvist, “with exceptional consequence.” Installation View: Sol Lewitt, ”Wall Drawing #51” (June 1970) Ten thousand lines, measuring a total of ...

   

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  Published 26-Jan-10
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  James Turrell: Skyspace Piz Uter

   

  James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers to view the sky through an opening in the roof. Skyspace Piz Uter was set up on the initiative of the Walter A. Bechtler foundation and specifically developed for Hotel Castell...

   

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  Published 22-Jan-10
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