James Turrell (*1943, Los Angeles) is one of the most important artists of our time. This fact was testified again by the worldwide resonance in the media to his large-scale temporary installation «Aten Reign» at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in 2013. Häusler Contemporary now exclusively presents in Switzerland a set of unique inkjet prints on paper that resulted from this widely celebrated exhibition.
Since the beginning of his artistic career James Turrell has been dedicated to the various manifestations that light can take. His work fascinates people around the globe from all social classes. Light is considered to be the medium that makes the world visible to us. However, with his large-scale installations, James Turrell makes us experience light as physical matter, as solid figure and volume, thus raising questions regarding our perception. The artist therefore repeatedly stresses that his unique art is best termed «Perceptual Art».
On the occasion of James Turrell’s 70th birthday in 2013, three major US museums honored the jubilee with extensive exhibitions. Each of the shows at the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York was different, and the one in New York, especially, caused an international sensation. For this exhibition, Turrell designed a complex construction that turned Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous rotunda into one of the artist’s largest «perceptional spaces» to date.