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John Daly-Peoples

James Turrell, Raemer Blue

Light from Tate: 1700s to Now

Auckland Art Gallery

February 25 – June 25

John Daly-Peoples

Auckland Art Gallery’s latest big exhibition, “Light from Tate: 1700s to Now” which opens later this month should be a crowd pleaser just because it is vibrant, colourful and playful – all the things that most people expect of art.

But the exhibition also explores, expands and explains the nature of art itself without being elitist or obscure. 

The show comes from London’s Tate Gallery and follows on from the successful exhibition “Light Show at the Auckland Art Gallery nearly ten years ago.

It is a multi-sensory blockbuster exhibition featuring nearly 100 works by celebrated artists working across different media including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing and the moving image.

Concepts of space, vision and light are present in much contemporary art and light has fascinated artists for centuries.

However, one of the crucial turning points in the artists’ use of light came with Edison’s invention of