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‘James Turrell: Light, Space, and Perception’

‘James Turrell: Light, Space, and Perception’ Image: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

James Turrell, born in 1943, is described as an American contemporary artist who has explored light, space and human perception.

Since the 1960s, Turrell has treated light as a material and created installations intended to be experienced bodily through light and space, rather than only viewed. The item also says he uses natural and artificial light to transform space itself.

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