James Turrell - Extraordinary ideas – Realized - English Edition - 2015

James Turrell: Extraordinary ideas – Realized/ Zumtobel Group Annual Report 2014/2015 - Dornbirn, Zumtobel Group AG, 2015 – 191 + 31 pp. – Two parts, hardcovers in slipcase – English edition - 30,5x25 cm.

- First part [191 pp.] covers Turrell’s volume ‘Extraordinary Ideas-Realized’, which features important installations by the artist from the various periods of his oeuvre. An extensive photographic documentation of Turrell’s installations is accompanied by essays and dialogs with experts from the fields of astronomy, physics, art history and medicine. As well as evidencing the diversity and depth of James Turrell’s work, the Zumtobel Group Annual Report is the first to feature images of his Skyspaces in Japan and Tasmania and includes previously unpublished material on his earlier works.

- The second part [31 pp.] is a (seperate) Annual Report 2014/2015 by the Zumtobel Group, accounting for the annual figures/ finances of the company to its stakeholders

Many of Turrell’s projects were realized with support of this company, a German-based manufacturer of luminaires, lighting solutions and lighting components

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¶ James Turrell (born 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light", often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color. Many of his creations were prepared in his studio in Venice, California. Turrell was given his first solo show at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1967. Solo exhibitions have since included the Stedelijk Museum (1976), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1980), Israel Museum (1982); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1984), MAK, Vienna (1998–1999), Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2002–2003).

Main works/ projects are:

- The Roden Crater Project, starting in the 1970’s, extended his studio works into the landscape of an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert, the crater of which was turned into a work of art and celestial observation. Roden Crater is to be considered as his masterpiece and a work still in progress

- Skyspace, beginning in the 1970’s was basically space with seats along the walls and a large aperture in the roof. Today there are 75 open air public sites in museums in North America, Asia and Europe

- Project Ganzfeld, from 1991 onwards, a German word to describe the phenomenon of the total loss of depth perception, created by a controlled use of light

*** Key words: Land Art - Conceptual Art ***