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“What do you make inside here?”
“Make? I make a vacuum inside there.” —Larry Bell
Ok, last video related to the Hayward’s Space Shifters exhibition (through January 6, 2019), one more Light and Space artist. In this video, the intrepid Eric Minh Swenson visits the Taos, New Mexico studio of pioneering artist/engineer (and understated literalist), Larry Bell. Bell is also currently the subject of the first comprehensive American museum survey of his work in nearly two decades, the outstanding Larry Bell: Time Machines at the ICA Miami (through March 10, 2019). The exhibition features major bodies of Bell’s work, from his early Cube series to his large-scale color-glass installations.
Besides checking out the custom-made vacuum chambers that Bell uses to lay the thin film deposition of metallic particles on glass that he uses to create his signature, breathtaking [Was that necessary? –ed.] glass cube sculptures, along the way Swenson also meets an old dog named Pinkie, and sees a LOT of guitars. Related, if you worship at the altars of perfection that are Bell’s sculptures, we’d highly recommend you brace yourself, and watch this video, documenting… well… just watch it.
