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James Turrell
«The Wolfsburg Project»
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (DE), 2009

Exhibition:
October 24, 2009 – April 5, 2010 
Häusler Contemporary is extremely pleased to have mediated and accompanied one of James Turrell's greatest artistic visions to date in Germany. 

Together with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the light artist James Turrell has realized the largest walk-in light installation he has ever developed for an exhibition house: on a floor space of 700 square meters, a room-in-room construction rises eleven meters high to below the glazed museum ceiling. It is a two-part cavity of the Ganzfeld Pieces type. Two rooms that merge into one another - the so-called Viewing Space and the so-called Sensing Space - are both completely empty and - this is new for this type of work - flooded entirely with slowly changing colored light. Together with other works, the museum is presenting the Wolfsburg Project, the most comprehensive show of the American artist's work in Germany to date.

Visitors can enter these rooms via a ramp descending steeply from the upper floor into the Viewing Space and experience with all their senses in a "sublime bath of light" how architectural conditions cancel each other out to the point of disorientation in the homogeneous field of vision.

While the light reveals itself and refers to nothing outside of itself, surface, color and space enter into an interplay and create an atmosphere that completely surrounds the viewer and his senses. One is immersed in a mysterious, painterly world of pure light. The artist himself calls this experience "feeling with the eyes" and connects with it not only an aesthetic but also spiritual experience.


(Press release Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg) 

Video: James Turrell · The Wolfsburg Project (Englisch Subtitles)
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