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Your lost lighthouse, 2020 - Spruth Magers – 2020 - Photo: Ingo Kniest
Your lost lighthouse, 2020 - Spruth Magers – 2020 - Photo: Timo Ohler
Installation view of: Olafur Eliasson: Symbiotic seeing, 2020 - Kunsthaus Zürich – 2020 - Photo: Franca Candrian
Your lost lighthouse, 2020 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin – 2022 - Photo: Be an Angel e.V.
Your lost lighthouse, 2020 -  Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice Biennale – 2022 - Photo: Pat Verbruggen
Your lost lighthouse, 2020 - Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice Biennale – 2022 - Photo: Pat Verbruggen
Your lost lighthouse, 2020 -  Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice Biennale – 2022 - Photo: Pat Verbruggen
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This large Fresnel lens, which formerly enclosed a lighthouse lamp, is made of curved and angled rings of glass, held in a brass frame. The angled glass directed the lamp’s light towards the horizon to maximise its brightness for distant ships. 

Artwork details

Title

Your lost lighthouse

Year

2020

Materials

Lighthouse lens (ca. 1900), colour-effect filter cylinder, halogen light bulb, fluorescent light, brass, steel, ballast
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