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==Life and career== |
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Kersalé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of [[Paris]], and spent part of his childhood in the [[Brittany|Breton]] port town of [[Douarnenez]].<ref name=docks>"Yann Kersalé, un sculpteur de lumière", Nuits des docks, Services aux habitants, Saint-Nazaire-sur-Mer, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.mairie-saintnazaire.fr/pages/vivre-a-saint-nazaire/tourisme-et-loisirs/nuits-des-docks.php&title=Nuits%20des%20docks cached 27 April 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref> He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in [[Quimper]] in 1978.<ref name=docks/><ref>Julia Schulz-Dornburg, ''Arte y Arquitectura: Nuevas Afinidades / Art and Architecture: New Affinities'', Barcelona: GG, 2000, ISBN 9788425217784, [http://books.google.com/books?id=duxPAAAAMAAJ&q=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Quimper+1978&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Quimper+1978&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hqYET-mjF8PgiAK--JXBDg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ p. 143].</ref> Beginning in 1984 at the Société métallurgique in [[Caen]],<ref name=docks/> he has produced architectural illuminations of both natural environments and buildings that have founded a school of modern French light artistry.<ref>"The French light touch", designer profile, mondiale.co.uk, review of Vincent Laganier, ''Lumières architecturales en France'', Paris: AS, 2004, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.mondiale.co.uk/mondoarc/french/frenchdesignersFR.html&title=The%20French%20light%20touch cached 27 April 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref> <!-- He is responsible for the redesigned lighting of the [[Eiffel Tower]].<ref name=Films/> Leaving this commented out, it appears it may be incorrect. -->He has worked with [[Helmut Jahn]] on the [[Sony Center]] in Berlin and the Bangkok and Chicago airports and with [[Jean Nouvel]] on the [[Opéra Nouvel|Lyon Opera House]], the [[Torre Agbar]] in Barcelona, |
Kersalé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of [[Paris]], and spent part of his childhood in the [[Brittany|Breton]] port town of [[Douarnenez]].<ref name=docks>"Yann Kersalé, un sculpteur de lumière", Nuits des docks, Services aux habitants, Saint-Nazaire-sur-Mer, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.mairie-saintnazaire.fr/pages/vivre-a-saint-nazaire/tourisme-et-loisirs/nuits-des-docks.php&title=Nuits%20des%20docks cached 27 April 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref> He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in [[Quimper]] in 1978.<ref name=docks/><ref>Julia Schulz-Dornburg, ''Arte y Arquitectura: Nuevas Afinidades / Art and Architecture: New Affinities'', Barcelona: GG, 2000, ISBN 9788425217784, [http://books.google.com/books?id=duxPAAAAMAAJ&q=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Quimper+1978&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Quimper+1978&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hqYET-mjF8PgiAK--JXBDg&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ p. 143].</ref> Beginning in 1984 at the Société métallurgique in [[Caen]],<ref name=docks/> he has produced architectural illuminations of both natural environments and buildings that have founded a school of modern French light artistry.<ref>"The French light touch", designer profile, mondiale.co.uk, review of Vincent Laganier, ''Lumières architecturales en France'', Paris: AS, 2004, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.mondiale.co.uk/mondoarc/french/frenchdesignersFR.html&title=The%20French%20light%20touch cached 27 April 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref> <!-- He is responsible for the redesigned lighting of the [[Eiffel Tower]].<ref name=Films/> Leaving this commented out, it appears it may be incorrect. -->He has worked with [[Helmut Jahn]] on the [[Sony Center]] in Berlin and the Bangkok and Chicago airports and with [[Jean Nouvel]] on the [[Opéra Nouvel|Lyon Opera House]], the [[Torre Agbar]] in Barcelona, the [[Musée du quai Branly]] and the Philharmonie concert hall in Paris, and the Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre Museum, and has also been commissioned to design projects for numerous cities, including Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Bordeaux, and Montpellier in France and Bangkok, Quebec City, Frankfurt, Berlin, Las Vegas, Washington, DC, Lisbon, Brussels, and St Petersburg in other countries.<ref name=Ville24>''L'Art dans la ville: avec le tramway Nice - Côte d'Azur'', Communauté Nice-Côte d'Azur, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://presse.agglo-nice.fr/medias/20071126_canca.pdf&title=%C2%AB%C2%A0Yanne%20Kersal%C3%A9%C2%A0%C2%BB cached 27 April 2008] (pdf) p. 24 {{fr icon}}</ref><ref name=Metropolis>Véronique Vienne, [http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20081217/reclaiming-the-night "Reclaiming the Night: Yann Kersalé’s nocturnal illuminations have helped revitalize cities, parks, public spaces, and buildings all over Europe,"] ''Metropolis'', December 17, 2008.</ref> In 2007 alone, he worked in Luxembourg, Paris, and Korea.<ref name=Ville24/> |
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==Artistic philosophy== |
==Artistic philosophy== |
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Kersalé rejects the label of either architect or [[Light art#Artists in light|light artist]], preferring that of "project artist".<ref>Christian Werner Thomsen, tr. John William Gabriel, ''Visionary Architecture: From Babylon to Virtual Reality'', Munich/New York: Prestel, 1994, ISBN 9783791314259, [http://books.google.com/books?ei=Vqf6TviGKIzKiQL01qD5Cg&id=sI3uAAAAMAAJ&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9&q=work+of+Yann+Kersale%2C+who+conceives+of+himself+neither+as+an+architect%2C+light-artist%2C+nor+land+artist%2C+but+as+a+project+artist+of+the+second+generation+who+takes+elements#search_anchor p. 185].</ref> He has chosen the night, "the locus of choice of what is perceived," to create "luminous fictions, a narrative work on the spirit and memory of cities." However, he "fights ceaselessly against artificial lighting that kills authentic nocturnality and masks the sky," which has led him to create innovative new forms of illumination.<ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', p. 24: "Yann Kersalé choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible . . . . [I]l crée des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Il n'a de cesse de lutter contre les lumières artificielles qui tuent le nocturne authentique et masquent le ciel, inventant ainsi de nouveaux concepts d'eclairage."</ref> In 2011, a reviewer in ''[[Le Figaro]]'' called him "a passionate fan of chiaroscuro" who loves to plunge viewers into an "abyss" of total darkness to maximize their perception of the surprising narrative fantasies he constructs with light.<ref>Sophie De Santis, [http://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-expositions/2011/11/07/03015-20111107ARTFIG00741-yann-kersale-sept-fois-plus-a-l-ouest.php Yann Kersalé, sept fois plus à l'ouest,"] ''[[Le Figaro]]'', November 7, 2011: "Yann Kersalé, architecte de la lumière, aime ce genre de mise en abîme. Cette plongée dans le noir complet, pour mieux discerner les contours de ses fantasmagories éclairées, entraîne le visiteur dans une fiction pleine de rebondissements. . . . On est immergé dans l'univers à la fois minéral et numérique d'un passionné de clair-obscur."</ref> |
Kersalé rejects the label of either architect or [[Light art#Artists in light|light artist]], preferring that of "project artist".<ref>Christian Werner Thomsen, tr. John William Gabriel, ''Visionary Architecture: From Babylon to Virtual Reality'', Munich/New York: Prestel, 1994, ISBN 9783791314259, [http://books.google.com/books?ei=Vqf6TviGKIzKiQL01qD5Cg&id=sI3uAAAAMAAJ&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9&q=work+of+Yann+Kersale%2C+who+conceives+of+himself+neither+as+an+architect%2C+light-artist%2C+nor+land+artist%2C+but+as+a+project+artist+of+the+second+generation+who+takes+elements#search_anchor p. 185].</ref> He has chosen the night, "the locus of choice of what is perceived," to create "luminous fictions, a narrative work on the spirit and memory of cities." However, he "fights ceaselessly against artificial lighting that kills authentic nocturnality and masks the sky," which has led him to create innovative new forms of illumination.<ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', p. 24: "Yann Kersalé choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible . . . . [I]l crée des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Il n'a de cesse de lutter contre les lumières artificielles qui tuent le nocturne authentique et masquent le ciel, inventant ainsi de nouveaux concepts d'eclairage."</ref> In 2011, a reviewer in ''[[Le Figaro]]'' called him "a passionate fan of chiaroscuro" who loves to plunge viewers into an "abyss" of total darkness to maximize their perception of the surprising narrative fantasies he constructs with light.<ref>Sophie De Santis, [http://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-expositions/2011/11/07/03015-20111107ARTFIG00741-yann-kersale-sept-fois-plus-a-l-ouest.php Yann Kersalé, sept fois plus à l'ouest,"] ''[[Le Figaro]]'', November 7, 2011: "Yann Kersalé, architecte de la lumière, aime ce genre de mise en abîme. Cette plongée dans le noir complet, pour mieux discerner les contours de ses fantasmagories éclairées, entraîne le visiteur dans une fiction pleine de rebondissements. . . . On est immergé dans l'univers à la fois minéral et numérique d'un passionné de clair-obscur."</ref> |
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He regards his work for cities as a form of urban renewal, reclaiming areas where people can stroll safely at night, and saving industrial artifacts that might otherwise be destroyed.<ref name=Metropolis/> For example, his lighting of the boat lifts at [[Thieu]], Belgium, led to their preservation and the creation of a tourist promenade, <ref>Ariella Masboungi, "Penser la ville par la lumière," Ministère de la Région Wallonne, ''Les Cahiers de l'urbanisme'' 59/60, June 2006, ''Lumière—Couleur'', pp. 12–19, [http://books.google.com/books?id=6AP9v2J6HrgC&pg=PA46&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+lumi%C3%A8re&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_joHT5q7E8rTiAKJieDLCQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Thieu&f=false pp. 16, 17] {{fr icon}}</ref> and his project at the submarine base in [[Saint-Nazaire]] transformed a liability that was to have been demolished into a civic asset.<ref>Masboungi, [http://books.google.com/books?id=6AP9v2J6HrgC&pg=PA46&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+lumi%C3%A8re&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_joHT5q7E8rTiAKJieDLCQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Saint-Nazaire&f=false p. 18].</ref> |
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==Selected works== |
==Selected works== |
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===Permanent installations=== |
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* ''Nuit des docks'', [[Saint-Nazaire]], 1991. Night-time illumination of the docks, including a submarine base, in bright colors determined by analysis of the activity during the day,<ref name=docks/> The project, commissioned by the mayor, transformed the ugly military installation and site of unpleasant memories, which had been slated for demolition, into a civic asset. Kersalé cited a grandmother saying, "I would never have been able to imagine such a beautiful thing from such a horror."<ref>Masboungi, [http://books.google.com/books?id=6AP9v2J6HrgC&pg=PA46&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+lumi%C3%A8re&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_joHT5q7E8rTiAKJieDLCQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Saint-Nazaire&f=false pp. 13, 18]: "Jamais je n'aurais pu imaginer une aussi belle chose avec une horreur pareille."</ref> |
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* [[Sony Center]], Berlin, 2000. Illumination of the atrium roof in a series of simulated sunsets approximately 21 seconds in duration from sunset to midnight; during the rest of the night the lighting is dark blue, except for bright white light preceding sunrise and also preceding sunset.<ref>"Selected Projects," ''Architecture of the Night'', pp. 226–27.</ref><ref>Dietrich Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," in ''Leuchtende Bauten: Architektur der Nacht / Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night'', eds. Marion Ackermann and Dietrich Neumann, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz / Maidstone: Amalgamated Book Services, 2006, ISBN 9783775717571, pp. 16–21, 24–29, pp. 18–19, 26.</ref><ref>Jürgen Knirsch, ''Stadtplätze: Architektur und Freiraumplanung'', Leinfelden-Echterdingen: Koch, 2004, ISBN 9783874226561, [http://books.google.com/books?ei=qsAET6vcK7HTiAKzoJDHDA&sqi=2&id=awkWAQAAIAAJ&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Sony+Center&q=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+#search_anchor p. 101] {{de icon}}</ref> |
* [[Sony Center]], Berlin, 2000. Illumination of the atrium roof in a series of simulated sunsets approximately 21 seconds in duration from sunset to midnight; during the rest of the night the lighting is dark blue, except for bright white light preceding sunrise and also preceding sunset.<ref>"Selected Projects," ''Architecture of the Night'', pp. 226–27.</ref><ref>Dietrich Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," in ''Leuchtende Bauten: Architektur der Nacht / Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night'', eds. Marion Ackermann and Dietrich Neumann, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz / Maidstone: Amalgamated Book Services, 2006, ISBN 9783775717571, pp. 16–21, 24–29, pp. 18–19, 26.</ref><ref>Jürgen Knirsch, ''Stadtplätze: Architektur und Freiraumplanung'', Leinfelden-Echterdingen: Koch, 2004, ISBN 9783874226561, [http://books.google.com/books?ei=qsAET6vcK7HTiAKzoJDHDA&sqi=2&id=awkWAQAAIAAJ&dq=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+Sony+Center&q=Yann+Kersal%C3%A9+#search_anchor p. 101] {{de icon}}</ref> |
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* [[Torre Agbar]], [[Barcelona]], 2005. Exterior illumination of the office tower causes it to "glow at night as a colorful monolith".<ref>Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," pp. 19, 26.</ref> Lighting patterns are created by 4,500 panels each containing 18 LEDs, |
* ''Diffraction'', [[Torre Agbar]], [[Barcelona]], 2005. Exterior illumination of the office tower causes it to "glow at night as a colorful monolith".<ref>Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," pp. 19, 26.</ref> Lighting patterns are created by 4,500 panels each containing 18 LEDs, which can create 255 degrees of intensity and over 16 million hues, each panel independently controlled by a computer responding to 20,000 inputs including weather conditions and building systems.<ref>[http://www.factoriaurbana.com/ciudades/edificios.php?id=3&ciudadd=Barcelona Torre Agbar], Edificios, Factoría Urbana {{es icon}}</ref> The tower "vibrates in a play of primary and complementary colors."<ref>Christian Simenc, [http://www.artclair.com/oeil/archives/docs_article/53553/yann-kersale---le-siege-des-lumieres.php Yann Kersalé—Le siège des lumières,"] L'Oeil May 2008, Artclair.com {{fr icon}}</ref> Kersalé has described the lighting as "a vaporous cloud of colour that seeks moiré".<ref>[http://www.origindesignstudio.co.uk/blog/world-architecture-barcelona-part-1.html Barcelona Part 1: 2. Torre Agbar], World Architecture, Origin Design Studio.</ref> The lighting is installed between the building facade and its glass skin; the lighted windows of people still at work contribute to the effect.<ref name=Metropolis/> |
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* ''L'Ô'', [[Musée du quai Branly]], Paris, 2006: with Jean Nouvel and landscape architect [[Gilles Clément]]. A "lake" of 1,600 translucent rods that change color between white and deep turquoise in response to the temperature recorded at a weather station are planted among the grasses and reeds in the museum gardens. The project title is a pun on ''l'eau'', water, in reference to the primordial currents that lie beneath all human cultures; the museum houses indigenous art from all over the world.<ref name=Metropolis/> |
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* ''L'amorse du bleu'', [[Avenue Jean Médecin]], Nice, 2008. Blue diodes in the form of [[Morse code]] strung over the avenue; one of the 15 public art commissions, ''L'Art dans la ville'', awarded by competition in 2004 in association with the construction of the [[Nice tramway]].<ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', pp. 4, 6, 23.</ref> Kersalé's intent was "to create a vault of calm blue suspended in the air, in opposition to the density of the activity on the ground".<ref>"La volonté de Yann Kersalé est de créer une voûte de calme bleu suspendue dans les airs, en opposition à la densité des trafics au sol": "L'amorse du bleu", L'art dans la ville—Les œuvres de la nuit, Communauté d'Agglomération Nice Côte d'Azur, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.agglo-nice.fr/culture%252Dtourisme/oeuvres-de-la-nuit.htm&title=L%E2%80%99amorse%20du%20bleu archived 2 May 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref><ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', p. 23.</ref> |
* ''L'amorse du bleu'', [[Avenue Jean Médecin]], Nice, 2008. Blue diodes in the form of [[Morse code]] strung over the avenue; one of the 15 public art commissions, ''L'Art dans la ville'', awarded by competition in 2004 in association with the construction of the [[Nice tramway]].<ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', pp. 4, 6, 23.</ref> Kersalé's intent was "to create a vault of calm blue suspended in the air, in opposition to the density of the activity on the ground".<ref>"La volonté de Yann Kersalé est de créer une voûte de calme bleu suspendue dans les airs, en opposition à la densité des trafics au sol": "L'amorse du bleu", L'art dans la ville—Les œuvres de la nuit, Communauté d'Agglomération Nice Côte d'Azur, [http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/?url=http://www.agglo-nice.fr/culture%252Dtourisme/oeuvres-de-la-nuit.htm&title=L%E2%80%99amorse%20du%20bleu archived 2 May 2008] {{fr icon}}</ref><ref>''L'Art dans la ville'', p. 23.</ref> |
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* {{Official website|http://www.ykersale.com}} |
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* [http://archiguide.free.fr/AR/kersale.htm List of projects] at Archiguide.com |
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* [http://france.edf.com/html/quai_branly/bio_yann_kersale.pdf Biography and list of projects to 2006], Musée du quai Branly (pdf) {{fr icon}} |
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Revision as of 22:37, 9 January 2012
Yann Kersalé (born Boulogne-Billancourt,[n 1] 17 February 1955) is a French conceptual artist who works with light.
Life and career
Kersalé was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris, and spent part of his childhood in the Breton port town of Douarnenez.[1] He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Quimper in 1978.[1][2] Beginning in 1984 at the Société métallurgique in Caen,[1] he has produced architectural illuminations of both natural environments and buildings that have founded a school of modern French light artistry.[3] He has worked with Helmut Jahn on the Sony Center in Berlin and the Bangkok and Chicago airports and with Jean Nouvel on the Lyon Opera House, the Torre Agbar in Barcelona, the Musée du quai Branly and the Philharmonie concert hall in Paris, and the Abu Dhabi branch of the Louvre Museum, and has also been commissioned to design projects for numerous cities, including Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Nazaire, Le Havre, Cherbourg, Bordeaux, and Montpellier in France and Bangkok, Quebec City, Frankfurt, Berlin, Las Vegas, Washington, DC, Lisbon, Brussels, and St Petersburg in other countries.[4][5] In 2007 alone, he worked in Luxembourg, Paris, and Korea.[4]
Artistic philosophy
Kersalé rejects the label of either architect or light artist, preferring that of "project artist".[6] He has chosen the night, "the locus of choice of what is perceived," to create "luminous fictions, a narrative work on the spirit and memory of cities." However, he "fights ceaselessly against artificial lighting that kills authentic nocturnality and masks the sky," which has led him to create innovative new forms of illumination.[7] In 2011, a reviewer in Le Figaro called him "a passionate fan of chiaroscuro" who loves to plunge viewers into an "abyss" of total darkness to maximize their perception of the surprising narrative fantasies he constructs with light.[8]
He regards his work for cities as a form of urban renewal, reclaiming areas where people can stroll safely at night, and saving industrial artifacts that might otherwise be destroyed.[5] For example, his lighting of the boat lifts at Thieu, Belgium, led to their preservation and the creation of a tourist promenade, [9] and his project at the submarine base in Saint-Nazaire transformed a liability that was to have been demolished into a civic asset.[10]
Selected works
Temporary installations
- Le songe est de rigueur, Quimper, 1986. Computerised projection of light patterns on the ocean in response to "the movements of the tides, the currents, the wind and so forth" against "a set of stranded, wide-eyed, steel megaliths".[11][12] It was filmed by Henri Alekan under the subtitle Structures de lumière.[13]
- Irréversibles lumières, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987. Blue fluorescent lighting inside the glass dome waxing and waning forty times a minute to produce the effect of a beating heart or a respiring lung,[14][15] while the metal framing the glass was picked out in white.
Permanent installations
- Nuit des docks, Saint-Nazaire, 1991. Night-time illumination of the docks, including a submarine base, in bright colors determined by analysis of the activity during the day,[1] The project, commissioned by the mayor, transformed the ugly military installation and site of unpleasant memories, which had been slated for demolition, into a civic asset. Kersalé cited a grandmother saying, "I would never have been able to imagine such a beautiful thing from such a horror."[16]
- Sony Center, Berlin, 2000. Illumination of the atrium roof in a series of simulated sunsets approximately 21 seconds in duration from sunset to midnight; during the rest of the night the lighting is dark blue, except for bright white light preceding sunrise and also preceding sunset.[17][18][19]
- Diffraction, Torre Agbar, Barcelona, 2005. Exterior illumination of the office tower causes it to "glow at night as a colorful monolith".[20] Lighting patterns are created by 4,500 panels each containing 18 LEDs, which can create 255 degrees of intensity and over 16 million hues, each panel independently controlled by a computer responding to 20,000 inputs including weather conditions and building systems.[21] The tower "vibrates in a play of primary and complementary colors."[22] Kersalé has described the lighting as "a vaporous cloud of colour that seeks moiré".[23] The lighting is installed between the building facade and its glass skin; the lighted windows of people still at work contribute to the effect.[5]
- L'Ô, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, 2006: with Jean Nouvel and landscape architect Gilles Clément. A "lake" of 1,600 translucent rods that change color between white and deep turquoise in response to the temperature recorded at a weather station are planted among the grasses and reeds in the museum gardens. The project title is a pun on l'eau, water, in reference to the primordial currents that lie beneath all human cultures; the museum houses indigenous art from all over the world.[5]
- L'amorse du bleu, Avenue Jean Médecin, Nice, 2008. Blue diodes in the form of Morse code strung over the avenue; one of the 15 public art commissions, L'Art dans la ville, awarded by competition in 2004 in association with the construction of the Nice tramway.[24] Kersalé's intent was "to create a vault of calm blue suspended in the air, in opposition to the density of the activity on the ground".[25][26]
Notes
- ^ Some sources, for example the biography in L'Art dans la ville: avec le tramway Nice - Côte d'Azur, Communauté Nice-Côte d'Azur, cached 27 April 2008 (pdf) Template:Fr icon p. 24, state his birthplace as Paris.
References
- ^ a b c d "Yann Kersalé, un sculpteur de lumière", Nuits des docks, Services aux habitants, Saint-Nazaire-sur-Mer, cached 27 April 2008 Template:Fr icon
- ^ Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Arte y Arquitectura: Nuevas Afinidades / Art and Architecture: New Affinities, Barcelona: GG, 2000, ISBN 9788425217784, p. 143.
- ^ "The French light touch", designer profile, mondiale.co.uk, review of Vincent Laganier, Lumières architecturales en France, Paris: AS, 2004, cached 27 April 2008 Template:Fr icon
- ^ a b L'Art dans la ville: avec le tramway Nice - Côte d'Azur, Communauté Nice-Côte d'Azur, cached 27 April 2008 (pdf) p. 24 Template:Fr icon
- ^ a b c d Véronique Vienne, "Reclaiming the Night: Yann Kersalé’s nocturnal illuminations have helped revitalize cities, parks, public spaces, and buildings all over Europe," Metropolis, December 17, 2008.
- ^ Christian Werner Thomsen, tr. John William Gabriel, Visionary Architecture: From Babylon to Virtual Reality, Munich/New York: Prestel, 1994, ISBN 9783791314259, p. 185.
- ^ L'Art dans la ville, p. 24: "Yann Kersalé choisit la nuit, lieu d'élection du sensible . . . . [I]l crée des fictions lumineuses, travail narratif sur l'âme et la mémoire des villes. Il n'a de cesse de lutter contre les lumières artificielles qui tuent le nocturne authentique et masquent le ciel, inventant ainsi de nouveaux concepts d'eclairage."
- ^ Sophie De Santis, Yann Kersalé, sept fois plus à l'ouest," Le Figaro, November 7, 2011: "Yann Kersalé, architecte de la lumière, aime ce genre de mise en abîme. Cette plongée dans le noir complet, pour mieux discerner les contours de ses fantasmagories éclairées, entraîne le visiteur dans une fiction pleine de rebondissements. . . . On est immergé dans l'univers à la fois minéral et numérique d'un passionné de clair-obscur."
- ^ Ariella Masboungi, "Penser la ville par la lumière," Ministère de la Région Wallonne, Les Cahiers de l'urbanisme 59/60, June 2006, Lumière—Couleur, pp. 12–19, pp. 16, 17 Template:Fr icon
- ^ Masboungi, p. 18.
- ^ Artforum international 33 (1995) p. 213.
- ^ Jahrbuch für Licht und Architektur (1993) p. 13.
- ^ Films and Filming 1987, p. 22.
- ^ Dietrich Neumann, "Architectural Illumination since World War II", in Architecture of the Night: The Illuminated Building, ed. Dietrich Neumann, Munich/New York: Prestel, 2002, ISBN 9783791325873, pp. 78–86, p. 82.
- ^ Bernard Marrey, Le Grand Palais: sa construction, son histoire, Librairie de l'architecture et de la ville, Paris: Picard, 2006, ISBN 9782708407763, p. 114 Template:Fr icon
- ^ Masboungi, pp. 13, 18: "Jamais je n'aurais pu imaginer une aussi belle chose avec une horreur pareille."
- ^ "Selected Projects," Architecture of the Night, pp. 226–27.
- ^ Dietrich Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," in Leuchtende Bauten: Architektur der Nacht / Luminous Buildings: Architecture of the Night, eds. Marion Ackermann and Dietrich Neumann, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz / Maidstone: Amalgamated Book Services, 2006, ISBN 9783775717571, pp. 16–21, 24–29, pp. 18–19, 26.
- ^ Jürgen Knirsch, Stadtplätze: Architektur und Freiraumplanung, Leinfelden-Echterdingen: Koch, 2004, ISBN 9783874226561, p. 101 Template:De icon
- ^ Neumann, "Leuchtende Bauten—Architekturen der Nacht" / "Luminous Buildings—Architectures of the Night," pp. 19, 26.
- ^ Torre Agbar, Edificios, Factoría Urbana Template:Es icon
- ^ Christian Simenc, Yann Kersalé—Le siège des lumières," L'Oeil May 2008, Artclair.com Template:Fr icon
- ^ Barcelona Part 1: 2. Torre Agbar, World Architecture, Origin Design Studio.
- ^ L'Art dans la ville, pp. 4, 6, 23.
- ^ "La volonté de Yann Kersalé est de créer une voûte de calme bleu suspendue dans les airs, en opposition à la densité des trafics au sol": "L'amorse du bleu", L'art dans la ville—Les œuvres de la nuit, Communauté d'Agglomération Nice Côte d'Azur, archived 2 May 2008 Template:Fr icon
- ^ L'Art dans la ville, p. 23.
Sources
Works by Yann Kersalé
- Yann Kersalé. Paris: Gallimard, 2008. ISBN 9782070122806 Template:Fr icon
- Manière Noire: Géopoétique du paysage. Paris: Une & l'autre, 2008. ISBN 9782357290143 Template:Fr icon
- Lumière matière. DVD, 80 mins. Ecole centrale des arts et manufactures (Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine) Atelier audiovisuel, 2009. OCLC 690390144
Works by others
- Jean-Louis Pradel. Yann Kersalé: Lumière matière. Collection Archipels. Paris: BaS, 1990. ISBN 9782908474015 Template:Fr icon
- Philippe Curval. Yann Kersalé. In association with the exhibit "Expédition Lumière", 27 April – 10 July 1994 at Espace Electra. Monotypes. [Paris]: Hazan, 1994. ISBN 9782850253829
- Philippe Curval with Yann Kersalé. Yann Kersalé: Expéditions lumière / Light Expeditions. Catalogue. Paris: Enrico Navarra Gallery, 1995. OCLC 52349752
- Jean-Paul Curnier, Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Monique Sicard and Eric Germain, with translations by Jean-Hugues de Vandière. Yann Kersalé: Light for Landmarks / Structures lumière. Paris: Norma, 2003. ISBN 9782909283821
- Vincent Laganier. Lumières architecturales en France. Scéno +. Paris: AS, 2004. ISBN 9782912017253 Template:Fr icon
External links
- Official website
- List of projects at Archiguide.com
- Biography and list of projects to 2006, Musée du quai Branly (pdf) Template:Fr icon