Keith Tyson

"Large Field Array is a device for viewing your own interaction with things. I see it as an instrument. Not a scientific device, because there is no hypothesis to prove, but an apparatus for experiment." Keith Tyson

Keith Tyson’s Large Field Array (2006) is named after the ‘Very Large Array’, a field of Radio Telescopes located in New Mexico, USA. These telescopes focus on a single spot from multiple viewpoints to give a clearer and more developed picture of the universe. Similarly, Tyson’s monumental new work combines nearly 200 separate sculptural forms into a single field which operates as a gigantic experiential lens for viewing some of the fundamental forces that make up reality.

The individual sculptures in the array are two foot squared and arranged at four foot intervals in a cubic format across the floor and walls of the gallery. Each element is connected with the other works within the field in a web of diverse connections, spanning the visual, psychological, causal, philosophical, physical and conceptual. On entering the array the viewer is subsumed within this gigantic field and forced to re-interpret its unbridled inclusion of knowledge for themselves, tracing the myriad connections existing between the elements. Therefore the entire field combines to form a lens that allows the viewer to experience a truer nature of reality and an understanding of the world where spatial and temporal coordinates only arise when the viewer actualizes them with his or her corporeal and reflecting presence. Attacking the myth of individuality and the concept of the unique and discrete artwork, the Large Field Array continues Tyson’s joyful exploration of the interconnections found throughout universal experience.

The exhibition is co-curated by Anders Kold of Louisiana Museum and Hendrik Driessen of De Pont. A major new catalogue will be published by Louisiana Museum to accompany the exhibition, and will include contributions from Anders Kold and Jacob Wamberg, Professor of Art History at Aarhus University, and an interview with Keith Tyson by Dominic van den Boogerd.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 14 October 2006 – 14 January 2007 De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg, Holland 3 February – 17 June 2007

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Keith Tyson "Large Field Array"
Kooperation: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; De Pont, Tilburg
Kuratoren: Anders Kold, Hendrik Driessen

Stationen:
14.10.06 - 14.01.07 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
10.02.07 - 17.06.07 De Pont, Tilburg