Stuck Red/Stuck Blue
| Stuck Red / Stuck Blue | |
|---|---|
| Artist | San Diego |
Stuck Red and Stuck Blue are a pair of art installations produced by the American artist James Turrell. The pieces were created in 1970, and have formed part of several exhibitions of contemporary art in museums around the world, most recently in the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, United States. On each occasion, the pair have been displayed together as a combined installation.
Description
The pieces are displayed in a specially constructed octagonal chamber. The floor, ceiling and every wall are painted in a deep
fluorescent light (red in Stuck Red, blue in Stuck Blue). The lights are not visible directly, but they illuminate exactly the space cut from the wall, with no spillage. The walls of the recesses are painted white, but by reflecting the light from the fluorescent lamps appear to be different colours. The overall effect of the two pieces is to engender an optical illusion in which the three-dimensional space of the installation appears to collapse into two dimensions - the apertures seem to alternate between their actual "void" form and being on a single plane with the surrounding walls, ceiling and floor.[1][2]
Background
Much of Turrell's work is dedicated to the exploration of the aesthetic properties and "
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.[6] Each installation of the pieces required significant preparatory work by Turrell, who used a combination of diagrams and scale models, as well as extensive on-site experimentation, to determine the correct proportions and layout for the chambers.[4]
References
- ISBN 0-934418-44-6. p. 14.
- ^ a b Davies, pp. 74-75.
- ISBN 1-85490-213-X. p. 47.
- ^ ISBN 0-520-06728-2. p. 147
- ^ Adcock, p. 148.
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney(2008). Retrieved 15 October 2010.