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Beyond the Light, Dark Blue by Tony Alcock | Sculpture | Artlimes
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Beyond the Light, Dark Blue

Beyond the Light, Dark Blue, 2012

Tony Alcock

Original Sculpture117.8 x 117.8 x 9.5 cm

Mixed media light box

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About Tony Alcock

I was born in Nottingham (UK) in June 1947. My post school art education included a Pre-Dip at Loughborough followed by studying Fine Art / Painting at Leicester Polytechnic. After graduating and producing my 'Light Organ', I enjoyed a couple of years being recognized as an original and practicing artist in the UK. However, I chose to pursue life as a teacher, gaining a PGCE from Bristol University, where I later briefly lectured in Art education.

Circumstances changed and I found myself working as a musician, became a music shop owner and eventually worked in a successful graphics based company, MOGO UK. From 1993, I was able to reactivate my artistic ambitions, identifying myself as AMA, I've always liked the symmetry of my initials. Most all the work on this Artlimes website will have been produced after 1993.

Sculpture

About this Sculpture

The idea for this piece came into being in early 2006 when I was experimenting with light sources and semi-reflectivity. A blue neon tube, previously intended for an earlier work, is placed between a fully reflecting surface and a semi opaque membrane on glass which allows a given percentage of light through from the other side.

By satisfactorily determining the intensity of the light and its distance between the two reflective surfaces, one can create an illusion of ‘infinite’ space. However, the apparent depth of this illusion of space is somewhat determined by the ambient light of the room where the work is viewed.

To create an ‘artistic’ context in which to appreciate this illusion, I chose to create a largish stretched canvas, cut open and folded back to reveal the image - shades of Luciano Fontana here, but going rather deeper.

It would appear that it is the property of the colour blue rather than any other light source that creates this most enigmatic and profound space.
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