102 LIGHT + TECH The Dome is inspired by the
Pantheon, featuring a 6m-wide oculus open to the elements. ‘We are not challenging the Pantheon,’ Turrell has said. ‘The Pantheon is 43m in diameter… We do want to be modest.’ ‘Our studio is not just designing
a new room for a new artwork, we are co-creating the space and the installation simultaneously with James Turrell,’ Morten Schmidt of SHL has said of the venture. The journey to The Dome will start on ARoS Level 3, taking visitors down a long light-filled corridor that forms a sensory prelude to entering the monumental installation. Turrell’s distinctive lighting will wash the entire domed space and frame the endless sky, seen through the large central aperture. ‘The Dome is a collective experience driven by light and the poetry of seasons to emphasise our relationship to nature, the sky, and our shared planet,’ says ARoS.
The museum expansion also offers a public art square and a new, subterranean gallery: a dedicated space for annual contemporary commissions, especially for artists working with film, video, installation and performance to create site-specific works at formative moments in their careers.
‘The museum is stacked so that it takes you up to an “astral” level where you experience [Eliasson’s] installation and the city from the inside but it is a kind of “extrovert” experience of colour,’ explained Schmidt in an interview with Lighting magazine. ‘The Turrell installation will be very different.’
In other words, while the journey
to the Eliasson work is a vertical one (visitors ascend a spiral staircase from the basement, through the museum levels and galleries, and up to the roof), the path to the Turrell installation is horizontal, a long, sweeping horizontal passage, which takes the visitors below ground. ‘Two journeys, which both culminate in awe-inspiring, building-scale art installations, centred on colour, space, light and human perception,’ says SHL.
The first encounter in the Next Level
is with a sphere hanging rather than resting on the floor, so that it appears weightless. ‘That is the primary experience,’ continued Schmidt. ‘The secondary stage is stepping into it and perceiving the colour inwardly. Being inside The Dome from inside, will be a fantastic experience – psychedelic for most people. The complementary colours you will experience will be an inner experience. You will never know if your fellow is seeing the same colour.’ Or as Turrell has put it: ‘I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light infuses the dream, the way the atmosphere is coloured, the way light rains off people with auras and things like that… We don’t normally see light like that. But we all know it. So this is no unfamiliar territory – or no unfamiliar light. I like to have this kind of light that reminds us of this other place we know.’
www.aros.dk/en/art/the-next-level
James Turrell with a model of the new development
PHOTO: MORTEN FAUERBY MONTGOMERY
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