James Turrell

Häusler Contemporary, Munich
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is presently installed and is in excellent working condition. The work is not sold with the projector and Sotheby's will put the new owner in contact with the artist's installer for installation recommendations and specifications. Please note the correct title for this work is Gard, Pale Blue, 1968, and the correct medium for this lot is projected light.
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"This work is a Cross-Corner Projection piece, part of a series of some of Turell's earliest light works.  What appears to be a solid image is made by projecting light through a slide-sized template into the corner of the room.  In these works, we can observe how our mind completes things from incomplete information.  In the projection pieces, our mind interprets the projected light as a three-dimensional thing, as Turrell describes, 'bring order to chaos'.  In much the same way that Plato's ideal solids (the cube, the tetrahedron, etc.) helped the philosopher to project an order onto the universe, our mind imposes an 'accepted reality' onto what we perceive."

(Exh. Cat., Pittsburgh, Mattress Factory, James Turrell: Into the Light, 2002, p. 16)