Light On Light, 2009
Performed live at the Bruce High Quality Foundation Brooklyn, Yale Sculpture Gallery New Haven, and Cleopatra's Gallery Brooklyn, with a screening of the film at Cleopatra's. Filmed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
Light On Light is an ephemeral presentation of a sculpture in which an eight foot industrial fluorescent fixture with bulbs is installed on the floor, providing the only source of illumination for a space. Before the presentation is complete, two events will occur. After an audience has gathered, the illuminated bulbs are set afire, creating a double light as the fire burns between the two tubes. For a few moments, as the flames are bleached by the brightness of the electric light, a ghostly apparition of the fire burns. This is the primary event, fundamental to the formal concept of light on top of light. Briefly thereafter the bulbs explode from the heat, creating a spectacle. As the glass settles and the fire peacefully fades away, the atmosphere becomes quiet and communal.
Light On Light, the Film, is an extrapolation especially appropriate to the aforementioned artwork. Believing that this work is at rest in a state of projected light, Laracuente has created a 16mm color film, approximately 3 minutes in length. This film becomes the final object, to be screened once in the evening, and pass away until another time.
Read Review Light on Light at Cleopatra's By B. Blagojević
Light On Light, 2009
Performed live at the Bruce High Quality Foundation Brooklyn, Yale Sculpture Gallery New Haven, and Cleopatra's Gallery Brooklyn, with a screening of the film at Cleopatra's. Filmed by James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
Light On Light is an ephemeral presentation of a sculpture in which an eight foot industrial fluorescent fixture with bulbs is installed on the floor, providing the only source of illumination for a space. Before the presentation is complete, two events will occur. After an audience has gathered, the illuminated bulbs are set afire, creating a double light as the fire burns between the two tubes. For a few moments, as the flames are bleached by the brightness of the electric light, a ghostly apparition of the fire burns. This is the primary event, fundamental to the formal concept of light on top of light. Briefly thereafter the bulbs explode from the heat, creating a spectacle. As the glass settles and the fire peacefully fades away, the atmosphere becomes quiet and communal.
Light On Light, the Film, is an extrapolation especially appropriate to the aforementioned artwork. Believing that this work is at rest in a state of projected light, Laracuente has created a 16mm color film, approximately 3 minutes in length. This film becomes the final object, to be screened once in the evening, and pass away until another time.
Read Review Light on Light at Cleopatra's By B. Blagojević
