James Turrell is an American artist . He was born in 1943 with Los Angeles in a family Quaker of Franco-Irish origin, he lives and works with Flagstaff in Arizona, like in Ireland. Its medium of predilection is the Lumière.

Biography

It was initially graduate in Mathématiques and Psychologie, in Ponoma College, Claremont, California, in 1965. Then, it obtained a " Art Graduate Studies" (studies of 3rd cycle) at the University of California with Irvine, between 1965 and 1966, then a control " MY Art" in Claremont Graduate School.

Turrell asserts for its step dual membership of the scientific culture and technique, and the Atlantic and peaceful culture.

In 1983, it makes the personal purchase of a volcanic Cratère in the desert of the Arizona ( Roden Crater ), which it transforms little by little into a gigantic astronomical observatory.

It is the subject many personal exposures, in particular with the gallery Almine Rech with Paris), and received many prices.

The light like material

Since the end of the the Sixties, the installations of James Turrell, also called “environments perceptuels”, are carried out starting from one only material: the light, natural or artificial. Put aside the drawings and the plans which accompany its works by greater scale, its production does not comprise any object as tel. thus.

Its interventions, its installations “in room” or with open sky, proceed very of an artistic search which destabilizes our relations with reality.

By handling the light, James Turrell requests the directions, it is played of the perception of the spectator, it hustles it, the horn… Between its hands the light takes an extraordinary materiality. creation of fictitious spaces… disturbing then attractive…

Beginning 2005 was inaugurated Automotive Design Network (ADN), center of design of PSA Peugeot Citroen with Vélizy, which profits from a variable lighting conceived by James Turrell. The building profits from a dynamic, thanks to 200 sources of light made up each of 3 tubes neon from 1,5 to 2 meters of colors red, green and blue lighting, each being able to be activated 0 to 100% of its capacity to cover all the pallet of the colors and to emphasize in an exceptional way the building, according to variable programming conceived by the artist.

Films

• "Passageways" DVD published by the Paris Center Pompidou: a presentation of its philosopher's stone " Roden Crater".

Some works

• Some works
• illumination of the Bridge of Gard and the seat of the Deposit and consignment office
• frontage of the museum of Leipzig

External bonds

• List of its exposures
• '' Knowning Light '' exposure to Henry Art Gallery

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