THE CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART

IN UNNA CELEBRATES ITS

20TH ANNIVERSARY!

29 October 2021 - 24 April 2022

21. October 2021

Adela Andea

Primordial Garden

Flex Neon, CCF Licht, Plexiglas, Schaumstoff

Ausstellungsansicht, Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL, USA, 2014

© Adela Andea

EXHIBITION OPENING 29 October 2021

Since its founding in 2001, the 3,000 m2 space of the former cellar of the Linden Brewery has been regularly filled with international light art. The ZfIL is the first and only museum in the world to focus exclusively on the presentation of light art. On the occasion of the anniversary, director John Jaspers promises a particularly spectacular exhibition. Three expansive light art installations will be on display.

WHEN TIME AND SPACE DISSOLVE INTO LIGHT

The artist Adela Andea (US) is known for her technoid light sculptures. With the installation Chaos Incarnate, Andea creates a space full of psychedelically colourful luminous bodies on site for six weeks. They form irregular and meandering structures that spill, criss-cross and tangle across the old stone walls and floor.

FRAME VERSION

OLIVIER RATSI

Olivier Ratsi

Frame Perspective

LED, Holz, Software, 8 Audio-Kanäle 30x2,4x30m

Hersteller: Crossed Lab

© Olivier Ratsi

The installation Spectrum (Frame Version) by Olivier Ratsi (FR) also plays with the entire colour spectrum of the rainbow and confronts the visitor with a series of 20 LED frames that seem to float in space, positioned behind each other with mathematical precision. The colour of each frame slowly changes from magenta to violet.

Plane Scape

2012

Photo: Frank Vinken

© Plane Scape

The third highlight of the exhibition is the audio-visual collaborative work Plane Scape by the four artists ' Wolf Bittner (DE), Lyndsey Housden (UK), Yoko Seyama (JP) and Jeroen Uyttendaele (BE). Plane Scape is a walk-through forest of thousands of white rubber bands that form a labyrinthine grid of vertical lines. Images of a moving, abstract landscape are projected onto the bands, accompanied by a six-channel sound composition. The environment changes constantly and the viewer gradually loses his orientation amidst the streams of light and sound.

DUTCH (DE)LIGHT

NIGHT OF LIGHT ART on 30 October 2021

At the end of the anniversary week, from 29 to 31 October 2021, the town of Unna will also illuminate itself with the Dutch (De)Light LightParcours. Designed as an evening walk through the city, the LightParcours leads to ten different places in Unna's city centre. The artworks surprise visitors in unexpected corners of the city, such as small alleys and subways. With the help of an exclusive LightParcours city map, visitors can explore the artworks on their own. 

Curated by the Dutch guest curators Loes Diephuis and John Prop, ten Dutch artists will show their works: Nicky Assmann, Tamar Frank, Femke Schaap, Joris Strij bos, Philip Vermeulen and Peter Vink, among others. 

Exploration of the LightParcours Dutch (De)Light is free of charge and possible on the three evenings of the anniversary weekend, 29 to 31 October 2021, 7 - 11 pm.

www.lichtkunst-unna.de

DUTCH (DE)LIGHT

NIGHT OF THE ART OF LIGHT on 30 October 2021

www.hellweg-ein-lichtweg.de

By G. 21. October 2021