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The Light at Lascaux (Cave Entrance), September 29, 2005, 5:27 PM 2005

Artwork The Light at Lascaux (Cave Entrance), September 29, 2005, 5:27 PM this artwork made of Fluorescent light fixtures and lamps with filters, created in 2005-01-01
Accession No.
2009.198a-
Date Created
2005
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary International Art
Dimensions A
39 x 611cm
Edition
ed. 3/3
Media Category
Installation
Medium
Fluorescent light fixtures and lamps with filters
Place Created
Brooklyn
Credit Line
Purchased 2009. The Queensland Government's Queensland Art Gallery Acquisitions Fund

To create this work, Spencer Finch precisely recorded the quality of light at the transition point between the shadowy interior and entrance of Lascaux Cave, discovered in 1940 in south-west France, which contains extraordinary examples of prehistoric art. In the gallery space, Finch recreates this light with fluorescent tubes and calibrated colour filters. The angle of the tubes mirrors the angle of a mountain as seen across the valley from the cave entrance, while the colours relate to pigments in the cave's prehistoric paintings, as well as tones from the landscape and sky outside. 
 

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