James Turrell at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

BRUSSELS.- For the first time, Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels is presenting a solo exhibition by James Turrell. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, James Turrell lives and works in Arizona. From 1967 he presented his first “Projection Pieces” at the Pasadena Art Museum. These pieces are “revolutionary” and have been received as such in this time, sparking controversy. They are the first works that use light as a material in itself to be understood and “sculpted.” These works lay foundations that are entirely new in the history of Art through the use of light not as an element used for reflecting or lighting up an object or subject on a certain day or defining shadow and light in the tradition of pictorial studies of depiction from the inception of Western painting, but instead

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