The PACE gallery in New York hosted from April 10th to May 9th Cacophonous: exhibition of new light works by Robert Irwin. Irwin, who began his career as a painter, in 1960 becomes a pioneer of the movement "Light and Space" based in Los Angeles, arriving to consider the perception as a fundamental element of art.
Irwin's work draws focus to ambient environmental condition, making them palpable by heightening viewer's awareness in the context of the work. For the exhibition at the Pace Gallery produced eight works that show how he uses fluorescent lights, element became part of his research in the early Seventies.
Irwin has installed rows of column lights coating the different tubes with colored gels that alter the transmission of light. The walls as well as the contiguous elements that constitute the piece are perceived as a whole. The physical materials are subordinated by phenomenological effects of light, shadow and reflection.
Photo © Pace Gallery
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