This is a picture of Celia and Zelie in front of a James Turell piece at Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels. The piece is called a"Projection Piece" from 1968 entitled "Acro Red". From 1967 Turell presented his first "Projection Pieces" at the Pasadena Art Museum.

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These pieces are "revolutionary" and have been received as such in this time, sparking controversy. They are the first works that use light as a material in itself to be understood and "sculpted." These works lay foundations that are entirely new in the history of Art through the use of light not as an element used for reflecting or lighting up an object or subject on a certain day or defining shadow and light in the tradition of pictorial studies of depiction from the inception of Western painting, but instead as a true medium. Zelie loved it, as much as us. Let’s thank Almine Rech Gallery for bringing this to Brussels.

18 October 2010