![]() He thus perceives a magical and mysterious dimension in the presence of a television because of his deliberately archaic education on new technologiesīy manipulating the natural light of the sky and artificial in spaces, he creates installations that upset the markers of the spectator by immersing him in the darkness. And he became fascinated by these lighting effects of the cathode ray tube without seeing exactly what produced light. He also explained that he did not have television at home and that his only perception of TV was a reflection of the screen of his neighbors he was looking through the window. Much thought has been given to the mystical dimension of his Quaker religious education, giving way to silence, meditation and the reception of light. Flying was probably his source of inspiration and the sky, his studio.īut there were other explanations a little more mystical. There is such quality in the heavenly light that we lose all our bearings. When you are in a cockpit, there are times when the sky has no limit, you do not know if it is hollow, concave or convex. This is probably what led him to work on the sky and its variations. Indeed, he had his pilot diploma quite young. Turrell tries, on the contrary, to erase all the mechanics of the construction, all traces of his action like a magician. Flavin shows the neon tube, Judd, the perfect metal cubes. Unlike the New York school which was more in industrial stakes. And artists from the West Coast have tried to bring this art to a different, broader and perhaps more related to the issues of nature, the environment, the earth and the sky. Then, minimalism appeared in the United States on the East Coast in the 60s. It simplifies this relationship to the world. In my opinion, it is the most interesting analysis of his production that is almost a mental work: how can one go to a kind of absolute of a work of art by approaching almost nothing and at the same time approaching a sort of absolute of perception? We have joined one of the fundamentals of art, which is a sort of agreement between a mental abstraction and a minimal and refined form. James Turrell started from a very minimalist relationship to space and light. He himself has evolved in his manner in approaching them.
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