As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace – Aarhus, Denmark
Title
As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace – Aarhus, Denmark
Website
https://www.instagram.com/jamesturell/?hl=en
Designed by
James Turrell + Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Image Credit
© Adam Mørk
Project Description
Project description provided by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects - With As Seen Below, ARoS gains a new international landmark work by one of the most influential artists of our time, James Turrell. The installation represents the culmination of the museum’s approximately 4,000-square-metre underground expansion and reinforces ARoS’ position as an international destination where art, architecture and experience converge.
Rising 16 meters high and spanning 40 meters in diameter, As Seen Below is the largest Skyspace ever realised within a museum setting. The work is accessed through an underground passage that leads visitors into the monumental dome chamber, where Turrell’s characteristic light compositions envelop the space and frame the sky through an opening at the apex of the dome.
In As Seen Below, I’m shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image,” Turrell explains. “The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognize that the act of looking is the work itself. Here, light isn’t description, it’s the substance you stand within.”
