Holt's Mirrors of Light I at Art Basel Unlimited in 2023

Nancy Holt's "Mirrors of Light I" on view at Art Basel Unlimited

June 9, 2023

We are happy to share that Nancy Holt's room-sized installation Mirrors of Light I will be on view next week at Art Basel Unlimited with Sprüth Magers.
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Nancy Holt’s artistic investigations navigate the complexities of light as an artistic medium, as a physical reality, and as an aesthetic concept.⁠ A central theme for Holt is the way natural and artificial light create new possibilities of seeing.

The room-sized installation Mirrors of Light I plays with the proliferation of light. ⁠Illumination from a spotlight is reflected in ten circular mirrors, creating projections that appear to make light material, generating a sensory and conceptual experience of the relationships between viewer, light, and reflection.⁠

Holt's Mirrors of Light I will be on view along with works by Anne Imhof, Barbara Kruger, and Thomas Scheibitz presented by Sprüth Magers at Art Basel Unlimited, from June 13-18, 2023.

Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Installation view: Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland, Presented by Sprüth Magers, 2023
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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