Page 63 - Studio International - November 1966

Jan Manker Sigvard Olsson
Man 1966 Dien Bien Phu 1964
59i x 48 in. 83 1/2 x 80 7/8 in.

Left, a scale model (1 : 100) of the environment created
by Boriani of Gruppo T for the Kunst-Licht-Kunst
exhibition at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eind-
hoven, which was briefly noted in the October issue of
Studio International.
In his introduction to the exhibition's 150-page cata-
logue, Frank Popper draws attention to the antecedents
of the use of artificial light in art, the attempts to establish
the art form in the twenties (Wilfred, Klein, Moholy-
Nagy, Baranoff-Rossiné, Schwerdtfeger, Hirschfeld-
Mack, etc.), its renewal in the fifties (Kosice, Palatnik,
Munari, Malina, Schoeffer, Healey, Livinus, Takis,
Calos and others), and the present situation (including
the contribution of artists in the U.S.). He also deals at
some length with the relationships between the light
medium and sociological, psychological and aesthetic
aspects arising out of the work of groups, and of spectator
participation and environmental factors.
These aspects are particularly stressed in the part of the
exhibition devoted to experimental light-works built
specially by artists within a given space (or into which
previously-built luminous objects are incorporated).