See! Colour!

Artist James Turrell's mind-bending experience of light, sound and space in Järna, Sweden

The average human takes many things for granted, but in the eyes of American artist James Turrell the light and color around us is top of the list. For the past 30 years the pioneering artist has been creating breathtaking installations based around the simplistically multifaceted mediums of light, color and space. In fact, Turrell can lay claim to owning the world’s largest piece of …

Patrick Tosani

Pictorial mind games in a contemporary French photographer's first retrospective

At first glance Patrick Tosani‘s photographs seem like textbook examples of monolithic, clean and simple photography. But look a little closer and objects like ice cubes, spoons and high-heeled shoes reveal themselves by a trick of perspective and massive proportions, playing with scale and drawing the viewer into a new dimension. Over 200 such clever twists (many of which have never been shown before) comprise …

Monumenta 2011: Leviathan

Anish Kapoor inflates a massive womb-like sculpture in Paris

The challenge of the annual art exhibit known as Monumenta is primarily a question of volume. Works created for the site-specific show must grapple with the 13,500 square-meter nave of the Grand Palais and the shimmering glass roof (the biggest in Europe), originally built for a late-1800s world’s fair in Paris. Every year the French Ministry for Culture invites a key figure of the artistic …