Otto Piene’s “Lichtballett’’ or “Light Ballet’’ installation at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
(Gunter Thorn)
art REVIEW
Otto Piene’s lights dance in an enchanted world
Mysteries and marvels to be found in a revelatory installation at MIT
Otto Piene’s “Lichtballett’’ or “Light Ballet’’ installation at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
(Gunter Thorn)
The most beautiful room in greater Boston right now is a gallery in the MIT List Visual Arts Center at MIT. The gallery is really just a small, windowless room. It’s dark, too - or it would be if it weren’t for a constantly changing arrangement of patterned light orchestrated by 83-year-old artist Otto Piene. The light, part of a work called “Lichballett’’ or light ballet, plays across one wall and wanders onto the next, morphing in scale and clarity as it moves.
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