On October 24, 2009, a monumental lighting art installation, created by American lighting artist James Turrell, was presented to the public at the Wolfsburg Art Museum.
The Wolfsburg Project, a monumental lighting installation created by famous lighting artist James Turrell, will be on display through April 5, 2010 at the Wolfsburg Art Museum in Germany. Photo courtesy of Wolfsburg Art Museum.
The Wolfsburg Project, or “Wolfsburg Ganzfeld Piece” as it has come to be known, is the largest installation ever implemented by Turrell in a museum. Twelve meters high and encompassing an area of 700 square meters, the installation comprises two rooms that merge into each other, called Viewing Space and Sensing Space, both completely empty and flooded with colored light that continually, slowly, changes.
Visitors entering these rooms experience unique sensory perceptions in this homogeneous visual field, plunged into a mysterious yet scenic world made of pure light. Turrell calls this experience “feeling with one’s eyes.”
Two hundred fifty Zumtobel Hilio LED light lines and 24 Olympus LED spotlights fitted with more than 30,000 LEDs were used for the Ganzfeld Piece, enabling creation of more than 65,000 brightness levels and millions of different colors suing by DMX controls.
The installation will be on display at the Wolfsburg Art Museum until April 5, 2010.
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