Brigitte Kowanz, Beyond, 2017

2017

Medium

Neon and mirror

Dimensions

80 × 190 cm

Edition

Ex. 1/3

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155895

In Brigitte Kowanz's light sculpture “Beyond” (2017), the title of the work forms a luminous circle of neon in a mirrored glass case in a sweeping manner. The graphic lettering in her own handwriting is multiplied by the mirroring into infinity. Since the late 1980s, Kowanz has frequently combined light with lettering and linguistic codes to visualize the complex relationship between seeing and understanding, perception and recognition. The medium of light is thereby made tangible and treated as an autonomous phenomenon, material (the neon tube) and information carrier (the lettering Beyond), thus form a metaphor for a search reaching beyond our visible reality. In doing so, she uses a combination of light and mirror to, in her own words “transform real space into a series of virtual spaces. With this superposition of light, mirrors and virtual spaces, my aim was to put two different types of today's spatial experience at the center of perception. While viewers are in the real space, they encounter their own reflection within the expanded virtual spaces of the mirror work between a multitude of data and information."