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Hypebeast
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
James Turrell Comes Full Circle in Upcoming Seoul Show
Summary A newJames Turrellexhibition is set to hit Pace Galleryin Seoul next month, marking the artist's first return to the Korean capital in 17 years. TitledThe Return, the show features five recent installations — including a never-before-seenWedgeworkpiece — by the Light and Space luminary, transforming the tea house and all three floors of the galleries into dreamlike illusions. Like others in the series, Turrell's latestWedgeworkpresents a choreographed play of color, shadow and light. Light takes on a 'thingness' in a low lit room, as soft gradients create the illusion of depth and space. The piece grounds itself in the sensorial, challenging conventions of materiality through a deceptive 'nature of reality as mediated by light.' Also on display are two large curved glass pieces, along with circular and diamond-shaped installations from the artist's ongoingGlassworkseries. These works create the sensation of endless depth through shifting planes of light, drawing viewers into seemingly infinite luminous spaces. Complementing the light-based works are photographs and works on paper that offer rare insight into the creative process behind Turrell's infamousRoden Craterproject. On view from June 14 through September 27,The Returntakes part in Pace's 65th anniversary year programming. To celebrate the gallery is mounting exhibitions around the world from an impressive roster of artists they've shown throughout the years. For more information on the show or additional anniversary events, head to the gallery'swebsite. Pace Seoul267 Itaewon-ro,Yongsan District,Seoul, South Korea
The Herald Scotland
08-05-2025
- General
- The Herald Scotland
Veteran who lied about age to join up tells of ‘relief' at learning war was over
'I did lie about my age. I pushed it up a bit, gave all the right answers, and I was in. I was happy,' he said. 'I was 17. I told them I was 18. I wrote a letter out saying that 'To whom it my concern, the bearer of this letter is my son, Donald Turrell blah, blah, blah'.' He explained he had always wanted to be a soldier and that like 'all the young lads' he had wanted to play his part in defending his country. He joined the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and in the ensuing months was stationed at various places around the UK, including Bury St Edmunds, Newquay, Newcastle and Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. His battalion crossed over to France in June 1944 in the days following D-Day, and Mr Turrell landed on Sword beach before taking part in fierce fighting against occupying German troops. The veteran described feeling 'excited and apprehensive' during the crossing, and said his 'introduction' to the war was seeing bodies from earlier fighting washing back up on the beach as he landed. His war came to an end a few weeks later on July 10, when he was seriously injured during fighting near the town of Eterville, and later medically discharged. The 99-year-old recalled that his unit had been fighting a group of Germans who he said had been 'leading' them to an area of woodland, before finding themselves pinned down by heavy fire. 'They put up a heavy barrage of bullets, machine guns, mortars and everything,' he recalled. 'We were static. When all that's going on, you're not looking around seeing where it's coming from. 'You keep down (in a) foetal position, and that's when I got walloped on the left side.' He explained that using his rifle as a crutch he had 'staggered' back to platoon headquarters where 'carriers' were sent to evacuate them. He continued: 'And while we were laying on the carriers, more shells came down and hit us there. 'One driver I knew … went up in the air. Well he was dead before he hit the ground. And that was another shock. 'I'm waiting for the next one to come for me, but no, I said to the driver – his name was Cameron – 'Let's get out of here''. He added: 'And that put me out of the Army. That was my Army career gone.' Mr Turrell spoke movingly of the close friends he lost during the campaign, some of whom he buried in the field, and who are now buried in Commonwealth War cemeteries on the continent. The war also claimed his older brother Leslie, who had been a telegraphist on HMS Penelope and died when she was sunk off the Italian coast near Naples in February 1944. The veteran has since been out to visit his friends' graves with the aid of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, and said he hopes to return to Scotland with the charity later this year. As well as visiting sites linked to his war service, including the Cameronian barracks in Hamilton, he said he wants to see places associated with his Scottish mother. 'My mother came from Scotland', he explained. 'She came from Dunfermline, and she always told me about how Scotland is, and there is a photograph in a family somewhere where she's doing the Highland fling. 'I'd like to go up there and see how she lived and all that, and Scotland itself.' Asked about his memories of the original VE Day in 1945, the 99-year-old said with a chuckle: 'I was in a pub, naturally'. 'I never heard a Churchill speech or anything, but I knew the war was over. 'So I met all the local lads who were in my class, and those who were on leave, etc and we had a damned good time. 'But I wasn't going to go up to London to Trafalgar Square because I was on crutches. 'I'd been wounded and I'd been pushed and shoved about, so I stayed local and (had a) really good time.' He added: 'It was a relief, because I was alive.'
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Veteran who lied about age to join up tells of ‘relief' at learning war was over
Veteran who lied about age to join up tells of 'relief' at learning war was over A 99-year-old veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has spoken of his 'relief' at learning the war in Europe had come to an end. Born in London in 1925, Donald Turrell was just 17 when he enlisted in the Army having forged a letter from his parents. 'I did lie about my age. I pushed it up a bit, gave all the right answers, and I was in. I was happy,' he said. 'I was 17. I told them I was 18. I wrote a letter out saying that 'To whom it my concern, the bearer of this letter is my son, Donald Turrell blah, blah, blah'.' He explained he had always wanted to be a soldier and that like 'all the young lads' he had wanted to play his part in defending his country. ADVERTISEMENT He joined the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and in the ensuing months was stationed at various places around the UK, including Bury St Edmunds, Newquay, Newcastle and Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. His battalion crossed over to France in June 1944 in the days following D-Day, and Mr Turrell landed on Sword beach before taking part in fierce fighting against occupying German troops. The veteran described feeling 'excited and apprehensive' during the crossing, and said his 'introduction' to the war was seeing bodies from earlier fighting washing back up on the beach as he landed. His war came to an end a few weeks later on July 10, when he was seriously injured during fighting near the town of Eterville, and later medically discharged. The 99-year-old recalled that his unit had been fighting a group of Germans who he said had been 'leading' them to an area of woodland, before finding themselves pinned down by heavy fire. ADVERTISEMENT 'They put up a heavy barrage of bullets, machine guns, mortars and everything,' he recalled. 'We were static. When all that's going on, you're not looking around seeing where it's coming from. 'You keep down (in a) foetal position, and that's when I got walloped on the left side.' He explained that using his rifle as a crutch he had 'staggered' back to platoon headquarters where 'carriers' were sent to evacuate them. He continued: 'And while we were laying on the carriers, more shells came down and hit us there. 'One driver I knew … went up in the air. Well he was dead before he hit the ground. And that was another shock. 'I'm waiting for the next one to come for me, but no, I said to the driver – his name was Cameron – 'Let's get out of here''. ADVERTISEMENT He added: 'And that put me out of the Army. That was my Army career gone.' Mr Turrell spoke movingly of the close friends he lost during the campaign, some of whom he buried in the field, and who are now buried in Commonwealth War cemeteries on the continent. The war also claimed his older brother Leslie, who had been a telegraphist on HMS Penelope and died when she was sunk off the Italian coast near Naples in February 1944. The veteran has since been out to visit his friends' graves with the aid of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, and said he hopes to return to Scotland with the charity later this year. As well as visiting sites linked to his war service, including the Cameronian barracks in Hamilton, he said he wants to see places associated with his Scottish mother. ADVERTISEMENT 'My mother came from Scotland', he explained. 'She came from Dunfermline, and she always told me about how Scotland is, and there is a photograph in a family somewhere where she's doing the Highland fling. 'I'd like to go up there and see how she lived and all that, and Scotland itself.' Asked about his memories of the original VE Day in 1945, the 99-year-old said with a chuckle: 'I was in a pub, naturally'. 'I never heard a Churchill speech or anything, but I knew the war was over. 'So I met all the local lads who were in my class, and those who were on leave, etc and we had a damned good time. 'But I wasn't going to go up to London to Trafalgar Square because I was on crutches. 'I'd been wounded and I'd been pushed and shoved about, so I stayed local and (had a) really good time.' He added: 'It was a relief, because I was alive.'
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Metro Detroit poet's work lands on the moon, in mission to send art to lunar surface
When Diane DeCillis looks at the night sky, it feels different now than it did before. Says the metro Detroit poet, 'I think to myself, wow, something I've written is on the moon.' A poem by DeCillis landed on the moon recently as part of a digitized archive carried by Blue Ghost Mission 1, which launched in January and reached the lunar surface in early March. The mission was operated by Firefly Aerospace in partnership with NASA. DeCillis is among the writers and artists whose work is included in the Lunar Codex, an effort by Canadian physicist and author Samuel Peralta to gather a huge, multimedia collection of art by thousands of creators from across the globe and send it to the moon. Her poem 'The Artist and His Volcano' was chosen to be part of 'The Polaris Trilogy,' an anthology that now has a permanent home on the moon and is devoted to works about the sun, moon and stars. DeCillis says the poem was inspired by visionary sculptor James Turrell's epic Roden Crater project. Turrell has spent more than four decades on the ongoing giant artwork located in an extinct volcano cinder cone in Arizona's Painted Desert area. The internationally famous artist has designed what Smithsonian magazine describes as 'a series of tunnels and chambers inside to capture celestial light,' including one completed tunnel that is more than 850 feet long. Turrell's observatory for the naked eye is made to be 'most precise in about 2,000 years,' according to the Smithsonian, which notes that his friends "sometimes joke that's also when he'll finish the project.' More: May's full moon is just around the corner. When to see the Flower Moon in 2025 More: Detroit's Hannan Center called 'one of Michigan's best-kept secrets' for senior citizens DeCillis hasn't been to the Roden Crater site, but she says she was extremely inspired by it. 'The poem I wrote was out of sheer passion. I had been looking at Turrell's work an d I was just blown away by it.' The former longtime owner of Southfield's The Print Gallery, DeCillis, who is 74, has had two collections of poetry published by the Wayne State University Press. In 2015, her first collection, 'Strings Attached,' was named to the annual Michigan Notable Book list and won the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. DeCillis gives her husband, Lou, credit for opening her mind and art to the grandeur of the moon and stars. 'When I married my husband, I didn't pay attention to the sky too much. I don't know if people do. But he's very interested in astromony and he had a telescope, so he'd always be showing me things in the sky,' she recounts. ' I just thought it was so cool, because it just made the world seem so much bigger…I'm thinking how could I not have noticed this.' Fast forward to a trip the couple took to Florida. She wanted to visit an art museum, but he wanted to go to the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex. 'I'm thinking, oh boy, it's going to be boring,' says DeCillis, describing a tour that included getting to see control rooms and more. Then DeCillis saw something that hit home emotionally. 'Ultimately you end up in this room with this gigantic curtain or metal door…and the door slowly opens and what do you see? The Saturn 5 rocket ship,' she says, referring to the mammoth vehicles. was used to send astronauts to the Moon, including the first landing in 1969. 'I literally fell to my knees and starting weeping. And I looked at my husband and said, 'This is the opposite of the word no.' DeCillis saw what she describes as 'a cosmic' yes in the fact that this mammoth was something human beings thought they could – and did – navigate to the moon. She has felt similarly impressed by Turrell's Roden Crater project and is looking for a way to contact the artist about her poem's recent journey. DeCillis is working now on her third book of poetry. She also expects to have her work included in a second lunar mission later this year. In 'The Artist and His Volcano,' she writes eloquently about 'that first night you were humbled into innocence/drawn into the rapturous sky realizing you could not hold/the immensity of space.' For poetry and the celestial world, the sky really is the limit. Contact Detroit Free Press pop culture critic Julie Hinds at jhinds@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Metro Detroiter's poem placed in digitized archive located on the moon
Leaders
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Leaders
James Turrell Joins Wadi AlFann at AlUla Arts Festival 2025
As part of the AlUla Arts Festival 2025, Wadi AlFann presents a special pre-opening program showcasing the work of internationally renowned artist James Turrell. This initiative invites both local and global audiences to explore the artistic vision of participating artists, providing an exclusive preview of the landmark creations that Wadi AlFann will unveil in the future. Turrell's participation includes an exclusive exhibition in the AlJadidah Arts District, providing insight into the large-scale project he will create at Wadi AlFann. His project will feature a series of expansive chambers alongside three of his early works, exploring the profound nature of perception. The exhibition will showcase four key pieces from the Royal Commission for AlUla and private collections, emphasizing Turrell's mastery of light as a transformative medium. It presents a rare opportunity to experience one of his earliest works alongside a more recent creation, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in his unique artistic approach—where light, space, and nature converge in an unforgettable sensory experience. Reflecting Wadi AlFann's vision of integrating contemporary art with AlUla's stunning natural and historical landscapes, this showcase celebrates Turrell's innovative contributions to light and architectural art. Known for his ability to shape space through light and color, Turrell transforms enclosed environments into mesmerizing visual experiences and constructs monumental pavilions that harmonize with the sky and cosmos. His upcoming project at Wadi AlFann embodies this creative philosophy, drawing inspiration from AlUla's breathtaking terrain and rich heritage to introduce a groundbreaking artistic dimension to the region's contemporary art scene. Related Topics : AlUla Arts Festival 2025 Returns with Creative Cultural Experiences Wadi Al- Areen Beauty of Pristine Nature, Dense Vegetation Taif Rose Listed among UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage AlUla Arts Festival 2025 Returns with Creative Cultural Experiences Short link : Post Views: 1
