Skyspace Ta Khut by James Turrell
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James Turrell Skyspace art installation with light and sky
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Luis E. Schickendantz 1, 20402 Faro de José Ignacio, Departamento de Maldonado, Uruguay Get directions
James Turrell Skyspace art installation with light and sky
Luis E. Schickendantz 1, 20402 Faro de José Ignacio, Departamento de Maldonado, Uruguay Get directions
"James Turrell’s first freestanding Skyspace on the continent turns a visit into a mind-expanding, one-of-a-kind art experience." - Michaela Trimble
"Inside a small, dome-roofed structure in José Ignacio I sat on a granite bench and watched a tangerine sunset through a hole in the snow-white marble ceiling of "Ta Khut," South America’s first freestanding Skyspace by James Turrell; artificial light inside fluctuated with the natural fade of dusk, creating a meditative experience as shifting shades — dandelion and violet one minute, black and lavender the next — glowed around us until, after about 40 minutes, we emerged dazed and stunned by the subtle play of color and light." - Mark Johanson Mark Johanson Mark Johanson is an American journalist based in Santiago, Chile. His stories on travel, food, adventure, and sustainability have appeared in The Economist, National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, Afar, Men’s Journal, and BBC, among others. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines
"At 3:30 a.m. in José Ignacio, I joined a handful of people filing into a large pyramid-shaped structure called Ta Khut, its exterior concealed by grass and plants and, instead of a sharp point, an apex punctuated by a white sphere crafted from some 42 tons of small marble bricks. Through heavy Lapacho wood sliding doors we entered a granite rotunda where every whisper and even the grains of sand beneath our shoes echoed upward toward a circular hole bored through the cupola to reveal the night sky. Seated along the edge, we watched a spectrum of colored lights swell and contract, reflecting onto the cavernous space above as the sounds outside shifted from frogs and crickets to chirping birds, with the crash of waves a constant. The rounded piece of sky visible through the 16-foot-diameter hole seemed to become a tangible object, and as clouds dissipated, moonlight gave way to radiant beams of morning sunlight. For some this is an aesthetic pleasure; for others it offers deep introspection about the scale of human life or the dawn of a new beginning; at its core, Ta Khut is a shrine to light." - Zachary Weiss
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