Photo Credit: Pace Editions

Artist

James Turrell (Maker), Pace Prints (Publisher)

Title

Aten Reign

Date

2015

Century

21st century

Medium & Support

Archival pigment print on paper

Edition

Printer's proof

Dimensions

Sheet: 44 x 65 in.

Style

Light and Space

Object Type

Prints

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Accession Number

2016.11.01

Copyright

In Copyright
© James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery, New York

Turrell considers light a material that defines space. His expansive body of work challenges human perception and the primal relationship with light. This print is based on Turrell’s 2013 Aten Reign installation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which created an immersive skyscape in the rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic building. Built in the center and top of the building, artificial LED lights were programed in a shifting spectrum to dialogue with natural light over a 60-minute cycle. The installation generated a sensation of the space as if it had a life of its own. This print captures an ephemeral moment that the light, color, space, and shape composed in the rotunda. Turrell is considered one of the foremost artists associated with the Light and Space art movement, which began in the artist’s home region of Southern California in the mid-1960s.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Object Entry
Written by: Lei Han