James Turrell's largest European survey opens at Gagosian Le Bourget

Gagosian Le Bourget, just outside Paris, hosts 'A One', the most extensive European exhibition dedicated to James Turrell (Los Angeles, 1943). The show brings together over thirty works spanning installations, photographs, and archival materials, tracing the artist's career from the late 1960s onward. A centerpiece is 'Ganzfeld, All Clear', a rounded white pavilion where visitors are immersed in colored light from an LED screen and backlighting, inducing disorientation and a loss of spatial orientation. The work references the Ganzfeld effect, where the brain interprets visual noise as tangible information due to the absence of depth and shape cues. Archival items include materials related to Roden Crater, a massive earthwork in Arizona's Painted Desert designed as a naked-eye observatory for light and sky. Also on view are holograms, models, photographs, a 3D photo viewer, and two lap tables Turrell used in the 1980s. The artist states, 'I want to create works that capture people's attention. It's not so different from when I was a child fascinated by the light above me. Usually we use light to illuminate things, but I'm interested in its 'casualness', when it becomes self-revealing.'