Cosmopolitan Casino in Las Vegas will be showing a selection of LED installations by Tracey Emin, featuring animated versions of the artist’s illuminated text works scrawling themselves across the building’s enormous screens. “It’s fantastic that the hotel wants to do this,” Emin says. “It’s not about selling things. It’s about love.” (more…)
In homage to the late Cornell astronomy professor Carl Sagan, artist Leo Villareal has installed a massive light work at the Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York. Titled Cosmos, the work uses 12,000 LED lights to emit complex patterns of shimmering light. (more…)
Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights (2013) Courtesy of The Bay Lights; Photography Lucas Saugen
The work of Leo Villareal often operates on grand scales, using bright LED lights to accent and underline the inherent characteristics of human structures around the world. Frequently using coded algorithms to create complex, shifting patters of light on buildings, walls, and other constructions, his infinite variations of light offer new ways of seeing and viewing already present architectures.
Following up on a number of massively successful public projects (including his popular “Buckyball” installation at Madison Square Park in New York), Villarreal has unveiled his largest installation to date: a string of LED lights running the length of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. TitledThe Bay Lights, his work highlights the iconic dimensions of the bridge, and projecting its stature into the night sky of the San Francisco Bay.
