Author: Helena Horn

Mischa Kuball _ lost artefacts, lost presence

panta rhei – between heaven and earth

In the Arne Jacobsen Foyer of the Herrenhausen Gardens, something troubling can be observed: a river flowing through the space just below the ceiling. Priceless cultural assets seem to fall before our eyes into a never-ending stream of transience. They flow unstoppably from the Baroque Galerie into the glass cuboid. We can’t tear our eyes away from this catastrophe: figures and busts, coins and vases, diverse social identities are washed away in this abstract riverine animation. → Read more

DANIEL CANOGAR

LATENCIES

The exhibition LATENCIES by Daniel Canogar (*1964, Madrid) shows, in addition to his two series of works SMALL DATA and ECHO, his latest series LATENCIES, created in 2021.

“Canogar investigates the interfaces and transitions between virtual and real worlds. In expansive, large-scale installations and generative video animations, the artist is dealing with the impact of media technologies on society; he vividly presents the transition from electromechanical to digital systems → Read more

Mischa Kuball

Referenzräume

The large-scale exhibition ReferenzRäume provides an insight into the work of Mischa Kuball. It shows room-sized installations, photographs and video projections as well as documentation from the work complex ‘public preposition’, i.e. those works realised in public spaces. → Read more

NFTs conquer the art market

The market for Crypto art is exploding – There is a gold-rush atmosphere

For the art market and the rest of the world, the phenomenon has been a great mystery since 11 March. On that day, the auction house Christie’s sold an NFT file by Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) for a fabulous 69 million US dollars.

Is a new era in art history dawning?

NFT is the name of the latest trend. Digitalisation is giving rise to a new art form: because an NFT cannot be copied, every NFT is unique and cryto art is conquering the art market – it is giving analogue art considerable competition. → Read more

LIT Lighting Design Awards 2020

The Winners 2020
The LIT Lighting Design Awards was envisioned to celebrate creativity and innovation in the fields of lighting and applications and to honour lighting designers and lighting product designers, both professionals and students. In the organization’s most recent news, LIT Lighting Design Awards will announce the Spotlight prize: “Spotlight is a special prize that rewards an organization or project which carries out remarkable work for its community, and for being a major contributor in the lighting industry,” says founder of LIT Lighting Design Awards, Hossein Farmani.

Read the full article in issue 2021/1 (February)  → Read more

MADS CHRISTENSEN

The transcendent colour of light | 2020

Mads Christensen (*1971 in Denmark, lives in Los Angeles/USA) in his works explores the immaterial qualities of light. His process creates dynamic artworks that generate a resonance in space based on dimensionality, composition, and diffusion. His works seemingly expand and contract, and escape form without actually moving. Trained as an electrical engineer, Christensen’s work consists of a confluence of computer science with light, colour, geometry, and movement.

Read full article in ArtLight 2021_1 (February)  → Read more

Switch II

Switch II is a project of the Center for International Light Art Unna and the Hochschule der Bildende Künste Saar (HBKsaar) Saarbrücken.
In this follow-up project, students and teachers of the HBKsaar experiment with physical light in drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. The common denominator of the exhibition is an understanding of the image that is inherent in temporality, changeability and transience.

Read full article in ArtLight 2021_1 (February)  → Read more

Lyon Light Festival Forum 2020

Creative lighting to reimagine cities
LUCI in collaboration with the City of Lyon will organize the Lyon Light Festival Forum. – Created in 2002, LUCI is a non-profit organization bringing together over 70-member towns and cities worldwide that use light as a tool for social, cultural and economic development.
The Lyon Light Festival Forum offers creative lighting professionals from around the world a space to explore new forms of creative lighting in the urban space.

The Lyon Light Festival Forum 2020 is a free online event.

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MARIE-PAULE HAAR

The Light and the Oeuvre – The Oeuvre and the Light

The light penetrates the museum, soft or bold, sometimes even sharp, rays like blades depending on the mood of the sun.

There it shaves the walls, cutting it into new geometrical surfaces, remodelling the architecture, which welcomes it with its linear slits and curved dome. Its long walls themselves replicate it in a play of subtly moving reflections, then it plays on the floor or bends over and stretches into the corners of the walls. → Read more

CHAYOT KIRANANTAWAT

In the Light of Shadows

Chayot Kiranantawat started his career as an architect in Bangkok in 2010 and joined a lighting design firm in 2014. In 2017 he moved to the United Arab Emirates to widen his experience and expertise in Dubai. Now Kiranantawat works in Singapore as a lighting designer in an international team that focuses on restoring the relationship between man and nature. He wants, that lighting design is becoming a medium for designing events or, more particularly, conditions that can promote a more active engagement of man with his environment. → Read more