James Turrell - Hemels Gewelf / Celestial Vault, 1996

            In de duinen van Den Haag waar het licht zo tastbaar aanwezig kan zijn, heeft Turrell een plek gemaakt om naar de lucht te kijken: ‘Hemels Gewelf' in Kijkduin. Op de top van een van de puinduinen is een kom aangelegd in de vorm van een ellips, 30 meter breed, 40 meter lang. Een aarden wal van ongeveer 5 meter hoog omsluit de kom. Om in deze kunstmatige krater te komen loop je eerst over houten treden het duin op en vervolgens door een betonnen doorgang van 6 meter lang. De glooiïngen aan de binnenkant van de krater zijn ingezaaid met gras en in het midden staat een monumentale bank van natuursteen waarop twee personen achterover kunnen liggen en kunnen zien hoe de hemel de vorm van een gewelf kan aannemen. Op een hoger gelegen duin staat eenzelfde bank waar zich een panorama ontvouwt over de zee, het strand en het platte land daarachter. In de richting van de horizon wordt het gewelf geleidelijk platter.

In the dunes of The Hague, where light can have such a tangible presence, Turrell created a place to gaze at the sky: ‘Celestial Vault' in Kijkduin. At the top of one of the rubble dunes, a bowl in the shape of an ellipse has been built, 30 meters wide and 40 meters long. A wall of earth, approximately 5 meters high encloses the bowl. In order to reach this artificial crater you first climb up the dune on wooden stairs and then walk through a six meter long concrete passageway. The slopes on the inside of the crater have been sown with grass and a monumental natural stone bench is in the middle on which two people can lie back and observe how the sky is a vault. A similar bench is located on a higher dune where a panorama unfolds over the sea, the beach and the flat countryside beyond. In the direction of the horizon, the vault gradually becomes flatter. For Turrell, light and space themselves are the object and one of the points he wants to make is that, during the act of observation, the observer should experience that he/she is observing.

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