Light, dematerialization and narrative transversality: the artistic installation of contemporary light and the gothic cathedral

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https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.v1i1.9987

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Light, color, artistic installation, contemporary art, Gothic Cathedral, aesthetics, visual metaphor

Abstract

This study settles an aesthetic hypothesis regarding the use of light as a language itself, able to create dematerialized and procedure-based spaces in two specific cases, the artistic installation of contemporary light and the Gothic Cathedral. In spite of its historical distance in time, both spaces use a very similar luminescent system, able to build an abstract and utopic ambience, which represents visual metaphors, lived throughout the corporal experience and the active participation of the spectators. Here, the work piece becomes a ritual that reestablishes itself as an event and as an extension of a mental concept breaking the boundaries between reality and what it is imagined. Light, color, volume and movement materialize it all.

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2017-07-01

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Light, dematerialization and narrative transversality: the artistic installation of contemporary light and the gothic cathedral. (2017). Eviterna Journal, 1(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.24310/Eviternare.v1i1.9987