"Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)" Exhibition
Leila Heller Gallery
This event has ended.
Illuminations(After Arthur Rimbaud)is an exhibition by 16 well-known and emerging artists who work with light.
Creating a revealing dialogue between artists living and working in the East and West, Illuminations(After Arthur Rimbaud) highlights the strength of light to bind different cultures together. As Rimbaud wrote, “…the soul for the soul, summing up everything, perfumes and sounds and colors.”
The artists in the exhibition represent countries including France, Germany, China, Iran, the UK, the US, Turkey, Algeria and Pakistan.
A number of the artists are inspired by neon lighting: Only God Knows I’m Good is spelled out and sculpted in white neon in a 2009 piece by Tracey Emin. Leila Pazooki uses blue neon tubes to sculpt a Farsi word in Orientalism, 2010. In a 2009 sculpture, Claude Levêque writes Rise of the Poisoned Youth in white neon. Shezad Dawood illuminates a tumbleweed with light blue neon script in Arabic, which is encased in acrylic.
A highlight of the exhibition will be Christian Boltanski’s Lumieres (vertical green rectangle - Catherine), 2000. The artist explores his longstanding interest in identity, narrative and biography in a haunting installation with light bulbs and a photograph of a woman.
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Schedule
from September 15, 2010 to November 12, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-09-15 from 18:00 to 20:00