1040 MASS MoCA Way North Adams, MA 01247 Subscribe Contact. Current Upcoming Long-Term Sound Art Sol LeWitt Anselm Kiefer. Todays Hours: 10am - 6pm Events Exhibitions. The group rose with him, in a standing ovation.Īt the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams. 1040 MASS MoCA WAY North Adams, MA 01247. In the wondrous perplexity of that moment, I noticed Turrell, who happened to be there with us that night, drawing himself up to leave. It was the oddest feeling: Of being emptied out and filled up at once. As the sky grew darker, our journey drew to a close the dome brightened to a crescendo of almost blinding white, and the oculus appeared as a flat, solid disk of inky black, with no color or feature or hint of anything to suggest the world beyond. That is to say, for all the work’s stunning simplicity, its rhythms are particular, beginning to middle to end. I kept thinking of it, in its spare, minimal beauty, as a visual embodiment of Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie No. Its arc, over either that last hour of daylight or darkness, is orchestrated. “C.A.V.U.” works with the space between day and night, where one folds into the other. The oculus - really, just a hole in the roof - appears projected on to it. The dome, a giant arc of white plaster over concrete, looks like a giant, formless expanse. That’s really the point, one Turrell has made with various installations over the years: With manipulations of light and form, what’s solid appears vapor, what seems flat has dimension. This was Turrell’s work in its essence: an experiential sojourn where your own sight couldn’t be trusted to relay an accurate rendering of reality itself to your brain. Kidspace welcomes volunteers/interns interested in conducting weekday gallery programs, helping students to begin to make their art projects and working on weekends helping general public visitors explore the exhibition and make their own art projects. The group rimming the bench all around me laughed out loud as the colors grew more intense, whether out of joy or disbelief or maybe a little anxiety, as their eyes winged through what amounted to a visual roller coaster. This was not a subtle effect: As the color intensified on the dome, the sky demanded to be seen in its new shade. When the dome deepened to purple, the sky turned lime green. With the dome a dizzying cobalt, the gray cloudscape above appeared orange. An array of LED lights fitted around the upper rim of the bench cast light that shifted in intensity and tone pink, then yellow, then blue. ![]() The dome glowed pink, and the sky, flat gray in the world outside, appeared as a shimmering disk of pale green. At Mass MoCA, I settled into the black granite bench (heated, you should know) and reclined into its concrete back.
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