By Pamela C. Scorzin, Dortmund (Germany)/ Milan (Italy)
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Colour and light are the creative media that exercise the greatest pull on Berlin artist Margareta Hesse as a creative medium for her work. In this voluntary reduction and in the constancy of subject, an enormous and fascinating variance simultaneously arises. It is expressed in the principle of the oeuvre cycle and in the modular arrange¬ments of her translucent pictures; but now also, and to a much greater extent, in a new series of light installations. Since autumn 2008, Hesse has included the modern technology of the laser as a creative medium in her site-specific installations. Thereby she has added significantly to what Peter Weibel has called contemporary Light Art from Artificial Light, with a non-artistic, industrial material which, compared to the light bulb, the fluorescent tube or LEDs, has only rarely found use by artists of the twentieth and so far, the twenty-first century.
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https://www.margareta-hesse.de/laser.htm (02.05.2021)