Häusler Contemporary is pleased to open the new season with a solo exhibition by James Turrell. The show documents Turrell's many years of groundbreaking artistic research on the subject of light and allows us to experience it up close in the exclusive presentation of the work type «Tall Glass».
"My works are not about light, they are light," says James Turrell (born 1943 in Los Angeles, lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona) about his work. The artist makes spaces glow, using natural and artificial light in which he immerses the viewer. Turrell began his experiments with light and space at the age of 23. Since then, he has used light in its many forms to explore the boundaries of perception. Light, an omnipresent yet intangible matter, becomes almost physically palpable in the spatial situations of the now 80-year-old. Thus, Turrell's interest also lies "In the perception of light, which one can almost feel. More a feeling than an intellectual idea." Light that appropriates space reifies itself in an expansive way: this is James Turrell's medium.
This solo exhibition is the 11th Häusler Contemporary has hosted for the artist. It presents an overview of Turrell's groundbreaking artistic research and simultaneously documents the longstanding and appreciative partnership between the light artist and the gallery. As of September, the gallery space on Stampfenbachstrasse will present a wide variety of objects from Turrell's many years of artistic engagement with the material light: the subtly shaded «Deep Sky» aquatint series, for example - rare prints from 1984 that address Turrell's «opus magnum», the gigantic land art project Roden Crater.