Light Art Weekend

On the weekend from 30th November to 2nd December this year, the Light Art Weekend took place in the cellars of the Alte Münze in Berlin. This exhibition was the first of a series to happen annually and organized by ARTE LUCE.

This first edition, entitled “Extended-mind”, showcased a series of light art installations specifically developed for the site, from 12 different artists under curation of Alice Hinrichs. The cellar of the old building was definitely worth seeing, if you are a light and lighting enthusiast.

In this post, I would like to highlight 4 different works, which were most interesting to me. The first work is from Regine Schumann (*1961 in Germany) and is titled “Dream Team”. Here, Regine plays with spheres of acryl glass, a white carpet and black light. Under black light both the carpet and the coloured spheres created a scene of play. It was actually very inviting to play with the balls under black light, but this was unfortunately not allowed… A pity, as I would have been quite happy to be able to move around them and making them move.

The second work I found interesting is again making use of black light. (Maybe I’m missing the time when they used to have black lights in the discos…) Anyway, this work is by Yvonne Goulbier (*1953 in Germany), titled “East of the Sun” and is composed of an MDF base where coloured acrylic coated metal sticks are closely positioned, forming a path of grass-looking shining sticks… Black light doing its magic here again! Very fun to see almost a floating-like path as the room was extremely dark!

The third work is from 2 artists: Claudia Moseley (*1984 in England) and Edward Shuster (*1986 in England), titled “Quietude: In-Finites”. They collaborated to create an installation made of hand cut transparent glass circles of different sizes, which were suspended in the room and illuminated by LED projectors. The circles and their shadows were projected on the white surrounding walls. As the suspension allowed the circles to move slowly, a subtle play was created on the walls and in the room itself, as the borders of the circles were shining too. Providencially, a bench was put at the corner for visitors to quietly observe the effects created. Nice!

And the last work I wanted to highlight is from Carlo Bernardini (*1966 in Italy) and is titled “Invisible Dimensions”. Here, Carlo used fiber optics and projectors with white light, challenging the conception of space and apparently drawing new dimensions in the space with light. Very nice to see and kind of similar to the work of Margareta Hesse, the difference being that she works with red laser and reflections to create the lines.

Hope you have enjoyed this post. If you have seen other light art installations and would like to see them here, let us know!

See you in the next post!

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