20 Mar Light Show: 11 Pieces Of Light Art That Boggle Your Senses
Any art exhibit that begins with a warning sign (“some installations contain artificial mist, flashing, or strobe lighting”) is destined for success.
Light Show is the UK’s first ever exhibition of light-based art and features 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by a range of international artists. The show brings together some of the most visually stimulating artwork created – from recent pieces to rare past works that have been recreated especially for the exhibit. The work displayed explores the medium of light in various aspects such as colour, duration, shadows, natural and artificial illumination and projection.
Despite the blockbuster artists involved, Light Show treads an uncertain curatorial line. After all, before the invention of electricity, the concept of “light art” would’ve seemed redundant, and it’s still a very loosely defined genre. Perhaps as a result of the ambiguity, some critics have called Light Show “a funfair of more or less startling effects,” and sure, there’s not much conceptual weight to hold the whole thing together (an alternate title could be Now That’s What I Call Light Art!).
Light Show includes work by David Batchelor, Jim Campell, Bill Culbert, Carlos-Cruz-Diez, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli and Weiss, Dan Flavin, Ceal Floyer, Nancy Holt, Jenny Holzer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Brigitte Kowanz, Anthony McCall, François Morellet, Iván Navarro, Philippe Parreno, Katie Paterson, Conrad Shawcross, James Turrell, Doug Wheeler, Cerith Wyn Evans, Leo Villareal.
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, 30th January – 28th April 2013
Book in advance at http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/light-show
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