Brian Eno
'Lapis' lithograph accompanying Light Music book, 2017
Hardback book. 1 - 250 accompanied by a numbered lithograph print, signed and dated by Brian Eno
100 Pages
100 Pages
lithograph size: 29 x 29 cm
book size: 30.9 x 31 x 1.5 cm
book size: 30.9 x 31 x 1.5 cm
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Click to buy A comprehensive overview of his exhibition of the same name from 2016 ‘Light Music’ includes all of the works that were displayed; light music boxes, the lenticulars...
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A comprehensive overview of his exhibition of the same name from 2016 ‘Light Music’ includes all of the works that were displayed; light music boxes, the lenticulars ‘Center Decenter’ and ‘Tender Divisor’ and graph paper drawings, as well as installation shots of the exhibition, all illustrated in colour. ‘Light Music’ also includes his more recent lenticulars, ‘Ripe’ and ‘Rose’ as well as four etchings ‘Agate’, ‘Grapefruit’, ‘Sunburnt’ and ‘Eclipsed’.
A major essay by Brian Eno charts the genesis of his interest in light, from when an uncle showed him early Disney film reels; “I have no recollection of what we saw: but what I do remember, even now, was the visceral impact of that intensity of colour”. Eno discusses his first light box of 1968, made up of nine cells arranged in a 3x3 grid, with the light provided by Pifco lightbulbs. “The result was an unexpectedly complex mesh of shadows and colour mixtures … I think what impressed me was not only the complexity of the result, but the economy of the means of producing it.”
Having decided to pursue music rather than art, “because I couldn’t at that point imagine that there might be a way of somehow encompassing both”, Eno discusses pioneering ambient music, and in particular Discreet Music 1975 “essentially the permutation of two simple melodies with some timbre changes – in many ways a direct descendant of the little lightbox”, and the accidental discovery of the idea of using video to make “a slowly moving painting” using a camera and TV set placed on their side. Eno writes how his experimentation with video answered his ongoing question “How can you control light?” Constantly refining his ideas, and embracing technology, interwoven as it is with creativity, Eno continued to make grander light installations, culminating in ’77 Million Paintings’ a projection covering The Sydney Opera House in 2009, reaching a point “where my lightwork had finally caught up with Kandinsky”.
The book also contains a short text by Michael Bracewell, ‘Shedding Light’ where he describes Eno’s art as “a space for the contemplation of individual experience”, where the viewer/listener is “encouraged to engage with a generative sensory/aesthetic experience that reflects the ever-changing moods and randomness of life itself”, and likens “the call of Eno’s art to that of, for instance, Matisse or Rothko at their most enfolding”.
A comprehensive overview of his exhibition of the same name from 2016 ‘Light Music’ includes all of the works that were displayed; light music boxes, the lenticulars ‘Center Decenter’ and ‘Tender Divisor’ and graph paper drawings, as well as installation shots of the exhibition, all illustrated in colour. ‘Light Music’ also includes his more recent lenticulars, ‘Ripe’ and ‘Rose’ as well as four etchings ‘Agate’, ‘Grapefruit’, ‘Sunburnt’ and ‘Eclipsed’.
A major essay by Brian Eno charts the genesis of his interest in light, from when an uncle showed him early Disney film reels; “I have no recollection of what we saw: but what I do remember, even now, was the visceral impact of that intensity of colour”. Eno discusses his first light box of 1968, made up of nine cells arranged in a 3x3 grid, with the light provided by Pifco lightbulbs. “The result was an unexpectedly complex mesh of shadows and colour mixtures … I think what impressed me was not only the complexity of the result, but the economy of the means of producing it.”
Having decided to pursue music rather than art, “because I couldn’t at that point imagine that there might be a way of somehow encompassing both”, Eno discusses pioneering ambient music, and in particular Discreet Music 1975 “essentially the permutation of two simple melodies with some timbre changes – in many ways a direct descendant of the little lightbox”, and the accidental discovery of the idea of using video to make “a slowly moving painting” using a camera and TV set placed on their side. Eno writes how his experimentation with video answered his ongoing question “How can you control light?” Constantly refining his ideas, and embracing technology, interwoven as it is with creativity, Eno continued to make grander light installations, culminating in ’77 Million Paintings’ a projection covering The Sydney Opera House in 2009, reaching a point “where my lightwork had finally caught up with Kandinsky”.
The book also contains a short text by Michael Bracewell, ‘Shedding Light’ where he describes Eno’s art as “a space for the contemplation of individual experience”, where the viewer/listener is “encouraged to engage with a generative sensory/aesthetic experience that reflects the ever-changing moods and randomness of life itself”, and likens “the call of Eno’s art to that of, for instance, Matisse or Rothko at their most enfolding”.
Provenance
Published on the occasion of the book launch of 'Light Music' 20th March 2017 at the Paul Stolper GalleryJoin our mailing list
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