Hatje Cantz Verlag | Ostfildern (DE) 2009
Ed. Ursula Sinnreich, Kulturbetrieb Unna
128 pages (german, english) | 100 Img.
ISBN 978-3-7757-2369-5
CHF 44.00

The publication was published on the occasion of the exhibition James Turrell «Geometry of Light» at the Center for International Light Art Unna (DE) in 2009.

At the center of this book is a group of works, skyspaces, which have become an art form in their own right, developed by James Turrell over the course of his career. Academic, philosophical, and art-historical essays explain the development and significance of these perceptual spaces, whose concept is closely bound to the creation of the Roden Crater Project in the Arizona desert, where the artist began erecting an observatory in 1974. Examples of his work are used to explain the meaning of these light spaces to contemporary art. Also included is the permanent installation, Skyspace/Camera Obscura Space, which Turrell conceived for the Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst in Unna. 

(from the brief description of the Hatje Cantz Verlag)