Gagosian's Hong Kong branch presents James Turrell's solo exhibition "Lifting the Veil," featuring three works from his "Glassworks" series. The gallery is transformed into darkened rooms with heavy curtains, where viewers experience Turrell's signature light installations—geometric openings in walls that emit slowly shifting, computer-controlled LED colors over 60-90 minute cycles. The show also coincides with a rare opportunity to see works by pioneering American light artist Dan Flavin elsewhere in Hong Kong.
This exhibition matters because it offers Hong Kong audiences a rare chance to engage with two of the most influential figures in American light art—Turrell and Flavin—whose work fundamentally redefined the relationship between perception, space, and material. Turrell's "Glassworks" series, begun in 2001, challenges traditional notions of painting by using light as the primary medium, while the concurrent presentation of Flavin's fluorescent tube installations underscores the enduring legacy of the Light and Space movement. The show serves as an accessible introduction to Turrell's monumental practice, which includes his decades-long project inside a volcano crater.