I have been to West Hollywood today. Unfortunately, most of the galleries are closed. Nevertheless, I successfully get to Ace Gallery Beverly Hills and LACMA.
Ace Gallery Beverly Hills
Ace Gallery is having his first solo show of Erwin Redl, whom well known in using LED lights to replace architectural environment, which create immersive and dynamic spatial experience by light and movement.
This is one of his installation, Fade, which is a hollow cylindrical dense grid of LED lights installed in a spacious room. The lights suggested a slow and subtle luminous changing in which concentration to sense it. Gradually, it creates a discreet sense of movement, which transform the space.
Closer look of Fade
A shell shape green LED grid.
This work actually used a blue and white LED light, which difficult to be observed in is photo. Anyways, the LEDs are installed against the wall, however, interestingly, it provided a sense of depth when you viewing in front of it. The light stands out like floating on the air.
Closer look of the blue grid
White LEDs create scattering vertical pattern, which two long stripes converge the pattern toward the inter-crossed wall edges. It create a sense of movement that collapse light into one particular point.
This is, for me, the most impressive work. Uncountable LED tubes were symmetrically and systematically distributed in a dark room, where audiences are encouraged to walk into the installation to feel the space. it was so amazing that while the space is being illustrated but “floating light”, you are totally engaging in a structureless structure. I mean you are in a space that seems not materialized. You can feel the immaterialized structure that transforms. You figure out the space/structure by seeing, and you move to sense the new formation. Moreover, for myself, while I immersed in the space that drawn by light, I can feel the lift of my body (maybe mentally)…
LACMA
Not allowed photography. Some works are quite interesting, but most of their collections are quite conventional. However, the realism works are really impressive.
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