18 October 08
www.whitecube.com
"An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment".
Robert Irwin
This is Robert Irwin’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Irwin has been one of the most influential artists working in the US over the past five decades. A pioneer of the ‘Light and Space’ movement of the 1960s, his work focuses on perceptual phenomena, such as light, volume and scale, with installations that are site specific. He has been exhibited in many of Americas top Galleries including: the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, the Getty Center, Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Not to be confused with Dan Flavin. The American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from every-day fluorescent light fixtures)
For his exhibition at White Cube - Irwin has created two new installations. On the ground floor, ‘Black³’. This features a series of floor-to-ceiling parallel fine gauze material panels, which the viewer must navigate, thereby altering the perceptual field of the space.
located in the basement gallery - ‘Light and Space II’ sees Irwin creating an installation with hundreds of fluorescent lights mounted at right angles in a non-repeating, grid-like formation. The final effect is quite hypnotic and very beautiful. Good show and well worth visiting!
8 out of 10
