James Turrell Skyspace: Light Reign at the Henry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- James Turrell Skyspace: Light Reign
Now on view #AtTheHenry
Henry Art Gallery is fortunate to have a James Turrell Skyspace at our museum. Turrell's skyspaces are specifically proportioned chambers with a round, ovular, or square aperture that opens to the sky. Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. Our skyspace, "Light Reign," was built to fit in our sculpture court.
Commissioned in 2003 to commemorate the Henry's 75th anniversary, "Light Reign" is Turrell's first structure to combine two key aspects of his work within one building: skyspace and exterior architectural illumination. Offering experiences of light in space, both inside and out, it is a unique pavilion that acts as both meditative chamber and public artwork.
James Turrell Skyspace: Light Reign, is part of a series of videos highlighting the Henry's permanent collections. The video series is a collaborative project between the Henry and Solstream Media.
The collecting activities of the Henry Art Gallery began in 1926 when Horace C. Henry offered 172 works of art and $97,000 to the University of Washington to construct the first public art museum in Seattle. Recently, we have focused on acquiring works that represent developments in contemporary art, particularly photography, media, and installation art. Our permanent collection includes over 25,000 objects.
1:12 "being inside a cloud" I appreciate that insight about the quality of light. I love this installation. I feel fortunate to have spent so much time with it during my internship back in the day 😊
I want one of these all over my house
I want one in my yard. powerfully metacognitive.
I found this b/c it's the name of my TH-cam channel and I was searching for myself; if you will ;)
I don't get it. Its staring at the sky in a dome that has a hole in it. Get a pair of binoculars and you get this similar effect no? Why not build the entire structure on rotating/ tilting room. Then you can change the trajectory of the hole relative to the sky. You'd be able to observe east as well as the west and make a contrast light/dark, and point it to various objections and lights in the sky.
Keith Hahn When I went to school there it was one of my favorite stops when heading off campus. The before my first visit I had a similar opinion to what you just mentioned, it is just a hole. However I will say the experience transcends the individual elements. Sometimes the urban environment can seem overwhelming and taking a minute to just look up at the sky can act like a mood reset. The experience can be profound. Here I am a decade later looking up videos as I try to incorporate a similar structure for my future house.
Keith Hahn Light Reign is like the Grand Canyon, in that it's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced..
You raise a good point re changing the trajectory, but that would make for a completely difference experience. The closest I can explain is that it is like sitting inside of a stationery camera, where the patch of sky changes according the earth's rotation and orbit. As HotShoe says, you are relieved of the outside world even though the space is in the middle of Seattle.
This installation is a place of relative stillness, a respite from the city. The feeling in the room is calm and contemplative. The fixed oval overhead is a window of quiet observation. It *is* an observatory of sorts, but not one that you manipulate. The movement is the gradual rotation of the Earth. There is no need to see specific objects or lights. As the video makes clear, raising the space up from the courtyard level was necessary to create the uncluttered view that Turrell desired. I hope you have/had the opportunity to experience it in person 🙂
There are some people who just don't get it.🤷🏻♂