Albrecht Schäfer
Ocellus
3. September – 28. November 2010

The Lichthaus Arnsberg presents the exhibition "Ocellus" by Albrecht Schäfer.

For the exhibition in the Lichthaus, Schäfer has designed a site-specific installation whose lightness relates to the architecture of the building. Schäfer's artistic intervention responds to the conditions of the glass house by creating an expansive sculpture made primarily of light and air.

A wafer-thin transparent film floats above the floor of the light house. The foil is suspended on fine threads, with three spotlights underneath, whose light source heats up the air and sets it in motion. The low-hanging tarpaulin thus begins to vibrate metabolically, filling the room with life through its gentle movements, inhaling and exhaling. The foil floats organically like a living creature, like a dancing luminous jellyfish whose momentum is stopped by the glass walls of the aquarium.

In zoology, ocellus is the name given to the light-sensing organ of various animal groups. The light cells of the jellyfish, which shine from inside the diffuse body, emerge and are reflected in the clear glass ceiling of the light house in the evening, blending in with the outside world and the night sky. Schäfer's contrasts do not arise in the demarcation, but in the fusion of artwork and space, inside and outside, day and night, but above all in the movement of the senses, which reveal the invisible.

The exhibition will be realised in two parts: On the occasion of the upcoming Galileo exhibition at Kloster Wedinghausen, the Lichthaus will also be showing Schäfer's sculpture "Innenwelt" in November.

Albrecht Schäfer was born in Stuttgart in 1967 and lives in Berlin. His last solo exhibitions were shown at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2010), Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2008), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2007) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2006).