James Turrell: A Retrospective

James Turrell: A retrospective
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
from 13 December 2014
James Turrell: A retrospective explores the artist’s work over almost 50 years, bringing together projection pieces, built spaces, holograms, drawings, prints and photographs. It surveys his life work, Roden Crater, a naked eye observatory in an extinct volcano on the edge of the Painted Desert, Arizona. The exhibition also celebrates the National Gallery’s Skyspace, Within without 2010, a viewing chamber that affects our perception of the sky.
Since the 1960s Turrell has made art from light. His interior works and external installations use a range of fluorescent, tungsten, fibre-optic, LED and natural light. This exhibition follows three highly successful shows throughout 2013-at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Guggenheim in New York. It brings together works from LACMA's tour, with spectacular installations purpose-built for Canberra.

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Most of the pieces pictured here are now at MassMoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The blue/magenta one, "Perfectly Clear", is huge and mind-altering.

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Bubsy visited this.

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Bubsy approved

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Classic Aussie ad. Between the bad voice actor and an even worse soundtrack, I forgot what the fuck this video was about. I felt like I was about to watch an episode of The Project.