A previously unseen exhibition, made during the pandemic but never presented because of lockdown, is now visible to the public for the first time ever.
Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly – also known as ‘The School of Looking’ – are passionate about perception and the search for new ways of looking at the universe. Working throughout 2020 in the quiet times of the pandemic, they created a separate artwork for each part of the spectrum – gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet, the visible spectrum, infrared, microwaves and radio waves. Programmed to open at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork on October 6th 2020, a statewide lockdown was imposed from October 5th, and Invisible Light became truly invisible, packed away in a basement for 4 years.
Now, for Zeitgeist Irland 24, a celebration of contemporary Irish culture taking place in Germany, this exhibition is visible to the public for the first time, and the artists are present to help people discover this fascinating interaction between art and science.
The Hamburg Planetarium, one of the world’s oldest, is situated in a magnificent Art-Deco water tower, built between 1912 and 1915. Used for only nine years, it was subsequently transformed into a planetarium, which opened its doors in 1930. Invisible Light is installed in the monumental interior of the water tower above the planetarium, a monumental space never visited by the public before.