Kunstmuseum St. Gallen presents Let There Be Light …, an exhibition of the large number of light-based works in the collection of the museum.
It was the Impressionists who discovered light as a central subject of their pictures in the 1860s. Its depiction through atmospheric changes became one of painting’s principle tasks; color was used primarily as a medium of light.
Contemporary art, by contrast, needs neither paintbrushes nor canvas to portray light: a light bulb and an outlet suffice. Light is no longer merely portrayed; now light itself has become a medium of art.
This exhibition, which places important Impressionist paintings in dialogue with artists such as John M. Armleder, Silvie Defraoui, Dan Flavin, Sylvie Fleury, Alex Hanimann, Matthew McCaslin, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Nedko Solakov, Keith Sonnier, Michel Verjux, and others, once again casts the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in a new light.
Let There Be Light …
From the Impressionists to Thomas Edison
04.07.2015 – 25.10.2015
Images courtesy of Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
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