Artists

James Turrell

Press release

Almine Rech Paris is pleased to announce its 12th exhibition with James Turrell, over 3 decades. A new light piece will be on view from the artist's ongoing  Glasses series, begun in 2004.

For over half a century, the American artist James Turrell, born in Los Angeles, California in 1943, has worked directly with light and space to create artworks that engage the viewer with the limits and wonder of human perception. 

Turrell’s concept of a Tall Glass or Wide Glass is a unique aperture — rectangular or elliptical, horizontal or vertical, rarely some other shapes have been created — in which the work composition, light and colors, develop gradually over the course of an hour perceptible through the use of translucent materials. In the past, Turrell’s Tall and Wide Glasses works were realized in neon, but for the last 15 years the artist has turned to LED technologies, which allow for richer hues and a lower light level, offering the artist more freedom as to which shapes, transitions, and color combinations he can include within the series. The works in this series are the result of Turrell’s research, started in the mid 1960s, on light as a material that affects perception of the human eye.