I was reminded of this sculpture when I watched the Netflix film - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The character played by Edward Norton has one in his exotic residence. The character played by Daniel Craig was amazed with it. Edward called it -
2010: The Year We Make Contact
When I recorded this video, the sculpture was located at JW Marriott Hotel Singapore South Beach.
Recorded 24 Nov 2022
Information Plate :
OPERA GALLERY
Anthony James
B. 1974, United Kingdom
80" Icosahedron. 2019
Stainless steel, specialised glass and LED lights
203.2 x 203 2x 2013.2 cm
Anthony James is a British-American artist based in Los Angeles. Known for his monumental installations and sculptures. He was bom in England in 1974 and studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1994 to 1998. His work gestures towards minimaism, materiality process, alchemy, language, mechanisation and experimentation with light and space.
His sculptures operate between the iconic and the arbitrary, the concrete and alchemic, the mythical and the experiential. The glass and LED structures bring a rigid and gleaming tangibility to the abstraction of the numerical calculation of flawless coherence. James describes his work "evoking pictorial depictions of the cosmos, alluding to notions of mysticism, ethereality, spirituality and science, all the while anchored through the use of weighty, industrial materials."
Combining cutting-edge technigues end concepts of Euclidean geometry, Anthony James creates his own visual language with light prompting us to dive right into his world of infinite mirrored precision and futuristic paragons. They are ethereal but casual, minimalist, yet intricale, it becomes hard to believe that somethng as constant and unarguable as light can be so curiously unfathomable and hopelessly breathtaking. As the light sculptures stand in the middle of a bustling city, they are juxtaposition to a silent debate with the streels of Orchard Road just by setting the night ablaze with something as simple as 'light'.
80" Icosahedron, 2019 in presentation as part of the Reposed/Reimagined Exhibition happening from 19 September to 30 October 2022
31 июл 2024
