Ryoji Ikeda - spectra [paris]
...my intention is always polarized by concepts of the beautiful and the sublime. To me, beauty is crystal; rationality, precision, simplicity, elegance, delicacy. The sublime is infinity, infinitesimal, immensity, indescribable, ineffable. The purest beauty is the world of mathematics.
Ryoji Ikeda
The Paris night sky is illuminated with blinding white light beamed vertically from scores of highly powered architectural lamps; spectra [paris] is a major new work by international artist Ryoji Ikeda, commissioned for Nuit Blanche, the city’s annual white night contemporary arts festival. The lighting is accompanied by a sound composition. As visitors move through the field of light they each experience a unique symphony of ultra pure sine sound waves. Situated on a plaza next to the tallest skyscraper in France, Ikeda’s startling twelve-hour transformation of Paris is one of the key events for Nuit Blanche.
spectra [paris] follows spectra [amsterdam], Ikeda’s acclaimed commission for DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008, his first large-scale project for a public space in which he created sculptural interventions using intense white light at found locations across the city.
4-5 October 08, 19:00 - 07:00 | Installation | Montparnasse Tower, Place Juin 1948, Paris, FR
Ryoji Ikeda, spectra [paris]
Produced by Le Troisième Pôle / Eva Albarran & Co., co-produced by Forma
Commissioned as part of La Nuit Blanche 2008 for the City of Paris
Photo: Marc Domage
Photos: Marc Domage
Read Kate Connolly's coverage of Nuit Blanche on The Guardian online:
www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/09/ryoji.ikeda.lelaboratoire.paris
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