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Tuesday 26 March 2013

Spend a Sunday... Light Show

The first time I tried to see the Light Show, my hopes were extinguished by a piece of paper on the door of the gallery informing me it was sold out.

In my disappointed brain, this confirmed it’s brilliance even more and I bought a ticket for the following weekend.

Leo Villareal’s Cylinder II
The exhibition displays artist’s use of artificial light since it became a more popular art form in 1960s. It says it ‘explores how we experience and psychologically respond to illumination and colour’.

Ceal Floyer’s ‘Throw’

I always forget what a good space the Hayward is, as soon as we walked in, we were mesmerised by the darting movements of the 19,600 lights of Leo Villareal’s Cylinder II 19,600. The movement is composed like a musical score, and every movement is unique. Further on was the playfully titled Ceal Floyer’s ‘Throw’ where a splatter of light appears to be thrown on the floor.

Anthony McCall (independant.com)


A room was dedicated to Anthony McCall’s light film Horizontal, You and I, where a video projector and a mist machine beams evolving lines of light. The viewer is encouraged to interact with the beams of light that appear tangible and solid. I missed the Anthony McCall solo exhibition recently so it was good to see this.

Carlos Cruz-Diez’ Chromosaturation (telegraph.com)
The exhibition encourages playful interaction throughout and this feeling was exemplified when we were asked to take our shoes off for Carlos Cruz-Diez’ Chromosaturation. The artist believes ‘colour does not consist of pigment’ and floods 3 rooms with monochorme projections of red, blue and green light. The immersive colour disorientates your perception of the colour of objects and for some reason, just wearing your socks intesifies the strangeness.

Two hours later, we emerged back into day-light, calmly and happily disorientated. ‘Light Show’ - it’s even in the name - wasn’t pretending to be just a an art exhibition, the medium of light stole the show and made it feel like a performance.

See it at The Hayward




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