Installation Art by James Turrell.

'SkySpace'

The extent to which Turrell goes in order to create such vast and captivating installation art is self evident when viewing his work. Collier Schorr describes the intense atmospheric nature of Turrell's work in a article he wrote for the world renowned magazine 'Frieze'. 'One must enter and exit through a pitch-black corridor; this juncture is where James Turrell’s installation begins. A maze of light turns must be carefully navigated, so that one avoids touching those passing in and out of the centre. In total darkness one may be hesitant to walk freely; small stumbling steps are taken instead. The entrance is a decompression chamber, an apparatus that momentarily rids the body of its own corporeality'. This beautifully articulate expression of Colliers first hand experience captures and portrays the magnitude and simultaneous subtlety of Turrells work. As we can see from the image above, the intentionality of Turrell's control of light and direction is elegantly achieved with the complexity of his work powering through the somewhat simplistic nature of the piece. The aesthetics of the piece shown through the image above reenforce, like that of various other examples of Turrell's work, these notions of geometry,  space, light and the manipulation of such things. There is a naturalistic element to the work perhaps evoking some primitive response from a dormant  part of our psyche in which we become excited when we see such  formations created by man, employing the elegance of nature.

Collier Article.
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/james_turrell/


'SkySpace' - Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5YKXLfjMHw