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    Light Symphonies

    Thomas Wilfred

    12:00 - 19:00

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    With his Lumia instruments that created compositions from electrical, mechanical, and reflective elements, the American light artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968) created a new art form at the crossroads between technology and modern art. The light paintings he composed – meditative, northern lights-like color symphonies –, and which he presented quietly without musical accompaniment, earned him a place in the Museum of Modern Art, New York as part of the exhibition “15 Americans” in 1952 together with Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

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    Biography Thomas Wilfred

    Thomas Wilfred (born Richard Edgar Løvstrøm, 1889–1968) was a musician, light artist, and inventor. He studied painting and lyric poetry in Paris. Beginning in 1905, he experimented with light and coined the term “Lumia” for artworks made with light.