If I tell you neon lights you think crazy 80's party, you think Star Wars, you think old kitchen terrible light I think : François Morellet - contemporary artist : painter, engraver, sculptor and last but not least: Light artist.
Le Centre Pompidou (Paris'museum of contemporary art) is showing a retrospective of his work focused on light.
The work is made to be interactive, the viewer can switch on/off the neon : all, then only some - they flicker, they blind, they stop...
While watching the exhibition i heard this girl say (she had just pushed a button that was flashing light in a black room onto a wall where ROUGE was written in big letters):
"I am trying to wonder what it does to me"
Isn't it what we all think at some point? I certainly felt this way recently.
That a work of art could create that feeling is a wonderful thing, that a sentence like that can be "stolen" from an exhibition room to an everyday life situation is the purpose of art.
Today a got hit by a neon light and I don't wonder what it does to me. I know.
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