Light shows
On Friday evening, when I left work
it was raining
and I got on a 176 bus to Waterloo Bridge/the Southbank
to meet my sweet Adrian
(no, not on the "beach"!)
but at the Hayward Gallery
(next to the BFI - British Film Institute)
We had booked to see "Light Show"
In the Hayward Gallery's own words (not that a gallery can speak of course...)
"Light Show explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use light to sculpt and shape space in different ways. The exhibition showcases artworks created from the 1960s to the present day, including immersive environments, free-standing light sculptures and projections.
From atmospheric installations to intangible sculptures that you can move around and even through, visitors can experience light in all of its spatial and sensory forms. Individual artworks explore different aspects of light such as colour, duration, intensity and projection, as well as perceptual phenomena. They also use light to address architecture, science and film, and do so using a variety of lighting technologies."
(a clandestine photo!)
We rather enjoyed most of the exhibition. There were a few "WTF" moments and I laughed at some of the pretentious descriptions in the little booklet but on the whole it was a rather captivating experience.
When we left it was still raining.
Here's another of the many weird and not-always-so-wonderful objets (d'art ?) disseminated around the Southbank perhaps in an attempt to beautify what will always be a concrete monstrosity!
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It is somewhat ironic that we ended up going to see this exhibition the same week when a permanent and unwelcome light installation was inaugurated where we live.
The street lights on Parish Lane were replaced on Monday by new LED bulbs, and we went from quite a gentle yellow light to a fiercely bright white one.
Our back garden is now floodlit and so is the back bedroom.
I could even read a book in bed in the 'dark' if I wasn't blinded by the light!
I have e-mailed the light contractors used by the council on Tuesday and the Council (at their e-mail address dedicated to pollution on Wednesday - they have a page on light pollution on their website) but no-one has replied.
In the meantime Adrian has posted about it on the local Facebook group and other 3 people said that they were going to write as well (and one said that she likes the new lights as she's not affected by them). We'll see.
Maybe I should submit an application for the felling of the offending lamppost: would I get a reply then, I wonder?
it was raining
and I got on a 176 bus to Waterloo Bridge/the Southbank
to meet my sweet Adrian
(no, not on the "beach"!)
but at the Hayward Gallery
(next to the BFI - British Film Institute)
We had booked to see "Light Show"
In the Hayward Gallery's own words (not that a gallery can speak of course...)
"Light Show explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use light to sculpt and shape space in different ways. The exhibition showcases artworks created from the 1960s to the present day, including immersive environments, free-standing light sculptures and projections.
From atmospheric installations to intangible sculptures that you can move around and even through, visitors can experience light in all of its spatial and sensory forms. Individual artworks explore different aspects of light such as colour, duration, intensity and projection, as well as perceptual phenomena. They also use light to address architecture, science and film, and do so using a variety of lighting technologies."
(a clandestine photo!)
We rather enjoyed most of the exhibition. There were a few "WTF" moments and I laughed at some of the pretentious descriptions in the little booklet but on the whole it was a rather captivating experience.
Click to viewWhen we left it was still raining.
Here's another of the many weird and not-always-so-wonderful objets (d'art ?) disseminated around the Southbank perhaps in an attempt to beautify what will always be a concrete monstrosity!
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
It is somewhat ironic that we ended up going to see this exhibition the same week when a permanent and unwelcome light installation was inaugurated where we live.
The street lights on Parish Lane were replaced on Monday by new LED bulbs, and we went from quite a gentle yellow light to a fiercely bright white one.
Our back garden is now floodlit and so is the back bedroom.
I could even read a book in bed in the 'dark' if I wasn't blinded by the light!
I have e-mailed the light contractors used by the council on Tuesday and the Council (at their e-mail address dedicated to pollution on Wednesday - they have a page on light pollution on their website) but no-one has replied.
In the meantime Adrian has posted about it on the local Facebook group and other 3 people said that they were going to write as well (and one said that she likes the new lights as she's not affected by them). We'll see.
Maybe I should submit an application for the felling of the offending lamppost: would I get a reply then, I wonder?