Light sculpture

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Dan Flavin" Quietly, to the memory of Mia Visser, 1977

Olafur Eliasson's "The Weather Project", 2003. The room's ceiling is a mirror; what appears to be a sphere is a reflected half sphere.

Light sculpture is an intermedia and time based artform in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces light, or the reverse (in the sense that light is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass). Most often light sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists or composers, not having started out directly making light sculpture.

Light sculpture is sometimes site-specific.

[edit] Artists

Artists include:

• Dan Flavin who first conceived of using electric light as an art form in 1961,^[1]
• Olafur Eliasson
• James Turrell
• Ellis D Fogg
• Bruce Nauman,
• Keith Sonnier,
• Chryssa,
• Bill Parker

The site of the first factory of the Philips corporation, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is now a museum devoted to light sculpture.^[2]

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] Further reading

• Jansen, J. (1991), 'Het Electrisch': van lamplicht tot lichtsculptuur, Museum het Princessehof, ISBN 9789071588105 .

• Tahara, Keiichi (2001), Light, Sculpture, Photography, Editions Assouline, ISBN 9782843232626 .

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