Catalogue général Lalique Art 2024

Turrell’s work has been exhibited in art institutions across the world, including the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MASS MoCA in North Adams; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg; the National Gallery of Art in Canberra; and the Chichu Art Museum on Naoshima Island. James Turrell is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1984) and the National Medal of Arts (2013). Like René Lalique in his day, James Turrell is known as a ‘light artist’. This unique coming together of two ‘artists of light’ is the result of over four years of close collaboration. This 3-stage collaboration began with the design by the artist of 42 light panels, named Crystal Light , inspired by an image of James Turrell’s Aten Reign installation, exhibited at the Guggenheim in 2013. The crystal design offers a hypnotic visual effect between the third and second dimension – similar to a trompe l’oeil, with intriguing depth. Working closely with Lalique’s perfumers, the collaboration also sees the first scent ever co- created by an artist for Lalique. Inspired by Zane Grey’s novel ‘Riders of the Purple Sage’, a first scent, Range Rider , captures the natural fragrances of the artist’s land, Arizona, including sage-scratched leather chaps, pepper, amber, and citrus. It is an olfactory architecture that speaks of sun-drenched Western ranching. A second scent, Purple Sage , named after this delicate, queen of plants that blooms in Arizona, offers a different interpretation of Turrell’s relationship with the American West, undulating between delicacy and strength. The bottle, with its soft curves, is a tribute to the eternal feminine form. James Turrell, Lalique and The Glenturret form a creative trio in the third chapter of this collaboration. From its tapered lines/edges to aesthetic symmetry, the Eight Decades decanter intrigues as much as fascinates, harboring an exceptional The Glenturret single malt. From it emanates a sensitivity to mystery. Once more, James Turell propels Lalique into modernity, while extending an invitation into his universe.

Beginning his art career in the 1960’s, James Turrell’s work is primarily an exploration of light and space. By making light the subject of the revelation, Turrell’s work challenges the very nature of how and what is perceived and, in particular, how what is perceived affects and forms the reality lived. Turrell is working his magnum opus, Roden Crater, an artwork of unprecedented scale within a volcanic cinder cone in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona.

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