The KiaR gallery in Frankfurt is celebrating its first anniversary on October 12, 2024 at Oppenheimer Landstrasse 45. The gallery owner wants to celebrate this anniversary exclusively with my light works. This is very exciting because my light works have never been shown in public.
The “Star” is currently being completed in our living room. A sculpture made of 6 acrylic glass tubes, each 4 meters long, on a plate made of 8 millimeter stainless steel, with a diameter of 1 meter. Each tube contains 600 LEDs. This object will fill the large room of the gallery and the opening will take place outside. Other works are spread out in the gallery.
I love night flights, whether past the Himalayas or over the Pacific. The eyes slowly adapt to the dimmed cockpit environment.
The view into space is overwhelming. It is never inky black. The classic constellations stand out and others can only be identified with a star map. There are so many. The light can come to us from a star that went out millions of years ago or from the rising sun.
The introduction of LEDs into lighting technology has not only completely changed the color of the light on earth.
It is surprising that light can be seen on earth even in remote regions in Siberia or Africa. There are roads that people drive on through the inhospitable Gobi Desert and at night the light from car headlights reaches us. India and Pakistan have used this LED technology to make their national borders clearly visible. We can easily see this long chain of lights from 10 kilometers up, probably even from space.
Cities at night from above. Everything is lit up.
For me, the city of Los Angeles has the largest carpet of lights. Coming from Las Vegas, we turn right and slowly descend into this square kilometer-large illuminated area and at the end of the city, directly on the Pacific, is LAX.
I have often visited New York. The light of the city reflects the pulse of the city.
Flying to New York is always exciting. From Anchorage to New York, the air traffic controllers guide us, coming from the north, towards La Guardia Airport using radar vectors. But this is too small for us, we want to go to JFK, so shortly before we arrive we are guided south, over the Hudson with a view of the city.
I know exactly how it feels in the streets at this moment and will experience it about an hour later. At night, the city is like a huge, brightly lit sculpture.