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In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

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Light experienced
Philipp Stolz Rittermann

28/06/13

Light experienced

It could be said that Robert Irwin is the artist who lifted the explorations of Rothko and Newman from the canvas and into the world of the whole body. Irwin paved the way for artists like Dan Flavin, James Turrell and more recently Olafur Eliasson with experiential works designed to place the viewer in direct contact with the phenomena employed. His dexterity with light is masterful and, as evidenced by the two pieces in this show, ruthlessly economical. There is not a single element or gesture beyond those essential to the experience he proposes. In the marvelous biography Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees, Erwin's preoccupation with phenomenological philosophy is regularly referred to. That these works go far beyond their own physical limits is self evident. That Erwin's work endures in the mind, becomes part of the viewer's idea of the world is clear evidence of how important it is. Until August the 17th.

Pace, London
"... touch is one of the "longest [entries] in the Oxford English Dictionary."
- Didier Anzieu, 1989, The Skin Ego: a Psychoanalytic Approach To The Self