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Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell

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A critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance. This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (1913–67) and key figure of the Light and Space movement, James Turrell (born 1943). Turrell first encountered Reinhardt at a lecture at Pasadena Museum in 1962, and paid homage to the influence Reinhardt had on his own work through the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, held at Pace Gallery in early 2022. As curator, Turrell designed the presentation and lighting concept to illuminate his chosen works from Reinhardt’s geometric, monochromatic “red,” “blue” and “black” paintings. This book documents this immersive exhibition through numerous installation photographs taken under different lighting conditions, accompanied by prose and poetry from a wide range of contributors, written in direct response to the visual experience of seeing the exhibition. Contemporary artists, writers, scientists and poets explore the experiential nature of both Reinhardt and Turrell’s work.

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Contributors: Lucy Lippard, Lynne Tillman, Alteronce Gumby, Torkwase Dyson, Phong Bui, Dorothea Lasky, Leopoldine Core, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Brian Greene, David Grubbs, Wayne Koestenbaum. Foreword by James Turrell. Introduction by Marc Glimcher.
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2023
Hardcover
120 pages: 70 color images
12 ½ × 10 ½ inches
ISBN: 9781948701563

Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell book standing upright. Black cloth cover with black text.
The book is opened to two pages, the left has text describing the two Turrell works on the right page.
The book is opened to two pages with one photograph across both. The color photograph depicts the exhibition.
The book is opened to two pages with a red Ad Reinhardt work on the right page and the attribution on the other.
Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell book standing upright. Black cloth cover with black text.

The presentation, titled Color Out of Darkness, featured Reinhardt’s paintings illuminated by a lighting concept conceived by Turrell, whose pioneering investigations of light, color, space, and perception have been greatly influenced by Reinhardt’s practice and legacy, in particular his “red,” “blue,” “white,” and “black” paintings.

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