Zooey Braun, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009/© James Turrell

James Turrell, "Ganzfeld Piece" (model) (2008). Wood, paint, LED lights, dimensions variable.

November 2009 Field Guide

The State of Things

Oleg Kulik

Robin Rhode and Leif Ove Andsnes

Omer Fast

Bill Viola

Federico Fellini

Alfred Leslie

James Turrell Doug Aitken Chelsea Shows to Start the Season Echigo Triennial Brings Japanese Countryside to Life Claire Sherman in New York Leading LACMA Changing Hue All the President’s Art

Send a letter to the Editor

Save to Del.icio.us Digg this

For several decades the American installation artist James Turrell has been bringing his fresh vision and perspective to the contemporary-art world, mostly in the form (or nonform) of light and space. The highlight of the extensive "Wolfsburg Project" is a series of light installations, titled "Ganzfeld," that Turrell designed specifically for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2008 — his largest in a museum context, covering 7 square meters and reaching 12 meters high. Located on a ramp between the first and second floors, the stimulating and colorful environment is an experience for viewers that the artist describes as "feeling with your eyes closed." In the galleries next to the museum’s Japanese garden will be Turrell’s projection from the series "Afrum," an ongoing body of work he began in the ’60s. Here light appears in the form of a three-dimensional box floating in the corner of the room. Also on display are several bronze models of Roden Crater, an extinct volcano located in the Arizona desert that Turrell began transforming into an artistic observatory in 1974. This exhibition, Turrell’s largest in Germany to date, promises to be a truly illuminating occasion.

kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de

"James Turrell / The Wolfsburg Project" originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' November 2009 Table of Contents.