Claude Lévêque transforms architectural space with light and colour. His installations, which are site-specific, render familiar environments ambiguous and disorienting. Reflective surfaces where we least expect them bring movement into a room while dissolving the stability of walls and ceilings. For TRACE the artist has developed a piece called War Games. Upon entering the main doors to the exhibition the visitor is confronted by a barrage of light.
This luminous assault is entirely unexpected: the windows and glass doors of the gallery space are covered with a dark grey solar filter, mirrored on one side. Lévêque has covered a false ceiling with reflective foil, and all the walls are painted with bright aluminium coloured paint. On the wall facing the entrance three rotating lamps project bright white flashes. The entire inner surface of the room reflects this intense light, which appears to rebound endlessly into space.
[LESS]Claude Lévêque transforms architectural space with light and colour. His installations, which are site-specific, render familiar environments ambiguous and disorienting. Reflective surfaces where we least expect them bring movement into a room while dissolving the stability of walls and ceilings. For TRACE the artist has developed a piece called War Games. Upon entering the main doors to the exhibition the visitor is confronted by a barrage of light.
This luminous assault is entirely unexpected: the windows and glass doors of the gallery space are covered with a dark grey solar filter, mirrored on one side. Lévêque has covered a false ceiling with reflective foil, and all the walls are painted with bright aluminium coloured paint. On the wall facing the entrance three rotating lamps project bright white flashes. The entire inner surface of the room reflects this intense light, which appears to rebound endlessly into space.
