James Turrell
James Turrell was born in Pasadena, California. He obtained a pilot's license when he was 16 years old. He subsequently flew supplies to remote mine sites and worked as an aerial cartographer. He received a BA degree from Pomona College in perceptual psychology in 1965 (including the study of the Ganzfeld effect) and also studied mathematics, geology and astronomy there. Turrell received an MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate School, University of California, Irvine in 1966.
Bridget's Bardo
in collaboration with the kunstmuseum wolfsburg, Turrell has created
his largest-ever walk-in light installation within a museum context: an 11 metre high structure
'space within a space' which covers a floor area of 700 metres and reaches up to the
museum's glass roof being exhibited as part of the wolfsburg project exhibition.
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| A diagram showing the "sensing space" of Bridget's Bardo. The audience will not be able to comprehend the size of the space. |
Space that sees
Space That Sees belongs to Turrell’s “Skyspace” series, which can be seen as performance pieces responding to and interacting with environmental conditions and atmospheric fluctuations over time. Observing the shifting hues of the sky from inside a pristine, rectilinear space, viewers experience a connection to their surroundings. But more than that, the artist, by confronting us with the empty space, turns our mind to our own mode of seeing.
What inspires me:
-playing with human perception
-making people unsure of what they are seeing
-using space and light as media
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