Following on from three major exhibitions in North America – at the Guggenheim Museum in New York,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston -, the PACE Gallery at Burlington Gardens is showing four of James Turrell’s installation works. James Turrell is a leading member of the Light and Space Generation of artists emerging from Los Angeles in the late 1960s. Turrell uses space and light to create works of contemplation where visitors sit or stand and become immersed in the atmosphere that his artwork creates. The Guggenheim Museum exhibition had an ambitious large temporary installation which enhanced the architecture of the building. Perhaps if PACE brings Turrell’s work to London again, they and the Royal Academy could let him loose on the classical entrance hall and staircase of the building.
Ian Caldwell
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place