James Turrell - 'A Life in Light'

The Louise T Blouin Foundation opened its 35,000 sq ft Institute in West London on 13 October 2006 with an inaugural exhibition devoted to the light works of James Turrell – widely acclaimed as one of the world's leading contemporary artists. A Life in Light is the first major exhibition in London of Turrell's work since 1993 and features several new light pieces as well as a large number of the artist's prints. The Louise T Blouin Foundation has also commissioned from Turrell a permanent site-specific light installation for the exterior of the building.

The Institute is one of the largest non-government funded, not-for-profit cultural spaces in London and will be a showcase for both established and emerging contemporary artists, think-tanks and artistic performances of all forms, whilst also providing a home for the Louise T Blouin Foundation and its work. Louise T Blouin MacBain’s £20 million investment has transformed a former coach-works into an important cultural arts space, involving the local community and injecting capital into an area currently undergoing regeneration and redevelopment.


In January, the Institute unveiled two new projection works: Argus (white) 1967 and Raethro (pink) 1968 which demonstrate some of Turrell’s earliest experiments with light and colour.