Larry Bell's retrospective at Hauser & Wirth, Monaco, unites old and new work
, the 84-year-old artist is seen from behind, peering through a small aperture in the middle of an enormous, bank vault-style circular door. With his brimmed hat and braces, the artist could easily pass for Heisenberg orThe door belongs to Bell’s vacuum-coating machine , a cylinder ten feet long and seven across, specially commissioned in 1969 to facilitate production of his early.
, one of Bell’s vapour works made using a modified version of the vacuum coating process to apply aluminium to black paper. Seen through, or reflected by, his sculptures, the works envelop one another, pooling their powers of illusion to create fleeting moments of perfect harmony. Outside, in the Jardins des Boulingrins that lie adjacent to the gallery, a more recent and highly coloured glass work,. Installed on a lawn that forbids viewers to walk on it and approach the sculpture, its surfaces are robbed of their full visual potency and it feels oddly dormant. This work, together with the exhibition as a whole, reminds us that while these sculptures may have been created in a vacuum, they are only truly alive in close proximity to people.
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