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American artist James Turrell has created As Seen Below, a 40-metre-wide Skyspace, for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Opening today, the domed extension realised in collaboration with Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen, is an immersive subterranean space washed in monochromatic colours. A six-metre-wide central aperture sits at the dome's apex to frame views of the shifting sky above. As Seen Below by James Turrell James Turrell has created a 40-metre-wide Skyspace for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum "In As Seen Below, I'm shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image," the artist explained. "The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognize that the act of looking is the work itself." "Here, light isn't description, it's the substance you stand within," he added. As Seen Below by James Turrell It sits beside the museum's original building The installation's opening marks the completion of the museum's wider 4,000-square-metre expansion led by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, for which Turrell's Skyspace is the "centrepiece". As Seen Below is the artist's 100th Skyspace installation and, according to the museum, his most ambitious one yet. As Seen Below by James Turrell A six-metre-wide aperture frames views of the sky The installation connects to the main museum building both above and below ground via a new outdoor exhibition space and subterranean corridor respectively. Above ground, the structure emerges from the museum's park as a grass-covered mound. Its volume is topped with a 100-square-metre operable lid that allows the oculus to be closed and double as a lighting system. As Seen Below by James Turrell Its interior is washed in monochromatic colours Ground level access to the space is provided by an arched concrete opening that carves into the structure. Inside, the 16-metre-tall dome is centred around a sweeping open space, which is entered through gaps in a secondary concrete structure that provides stepped seating. The interior has been finished with a grey-toned material palette of raw concrete and brick paving, which slopes down to a stone-covered drainage area at the structure's centre.

James Turrell Reaches His 100th Skyspace With a Colossal Subterranean Dome in Denmark

Timed to the summer solstice, the permanent installation at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum caps a decade-long expansion and ranks as the artist's largest museum-scale work to date

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A landscape photograph showcases the historic Miani Mosque in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, an ancient brick structure featuring a prominent central dome and arched entryways that sits in a state of partial dilapidation amid dense wild vegetation. In the foreground, the crumbling ruins of brick walls and weathered stone graves litter the overgrown ground, leading towards a modern white, intricately carved balustrade and pavilion structure on the left side of the frame. The sky above is entirely blown out and bright white, casting a harsh, flat light over the historic site and its surrounding burial grounds.

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A landscape photograph showcases the historic Miani Mosque in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, an ancient brick structure featuring a prominent central dome and arched entryways that sits in a state of partial dilapidation amid dense wild vegetation. In the foreground, the crumbling ruins of brick walls and weathered stone graves litter the overgrown ground, leading towards a modern white, intricately carved balustrade and pavilion structure on the left side of the frame. The sky above is entirely blown out and bright white, casting a harsh, flat light over the historic site and its surrounding burial grounds.
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James Turrell Reaches His 100th Skyspace With a Colossal Subterranean Dome in Denmark

Kamil Dad
American artist James Turrell has created As Seen Below, a 40-metre-wide Skyspace, for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Opening today, the domed extension realised in collaboration with Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen, is an immersive subterranean space washed in monochromatic colours. A six-metre-wide central aperture sits at the dome's apex to frame views of the shifting sky above. As Seen Below by James Turrell James Turrell has created a 40-metre-wide Skyspace for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum "In As Seen Below, I'm shaping the experience of seeing rather than delivering an image," the artist explained. "The architecture holds the sky close, so you recognize that the act of looking is the work itself." "Here, light isn't description, it's the substance you stand within," he added. As Seen Below by James Turrell It sits beside the museum's original building The installation's opening marks the completion of the museum's wider 4,000-square-metre expansion led by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, for which Turrell's Skyspace is the "centrepiece". As Seen Below is the artist's 100th Skyspace installation and, according to the museum, his most ambitious one yet. As Seen Below by James Turrell A six-metre-wide aperture frames views of the sky The installation connects to the main museum building both above and below ground via a new outdoor exhibition space and subterranean corridor respectively. Above ground, the structure emerges from the museum's park as a grass-covered mound. Its volume is topped with a 100-square-metre operable lid that allows the oculus to be closed and double as a lighting system. As Seen Below by James Turrell Its interior is washed in monochromatic colours Ground level access to the space is provided by an arched concrete opening that carves into the structure. Inside, the 16-metre-tall dome is centred around a sweeping open space, which is entered through gaps in a secondary concrete structure that provides stepped seating. The interior has been finished with a grey-toned material palette of raw concrete and brick paving, which slopes down to a stone-covered drainage area at the structure's centre.

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