Made from reams of cream canvas, with lots of light and airy space, the tents are decorated with chic minimalism in brown, beige and cream.
Attention should be paid to his habit of painting dark colors over bright ones to create a subtle underglow and his frequent emphasis on blank canvas as a source of light and texture.
Light Barrier, write the artists, is an installation that crosses millions of calibrated beams in front of a fog canvas to create "phantoms of light" that hang in the air—"floating graphic objects which animate through space as they do through time".
Loach's "Jimmy's Hall," a period piece set in the Ireland of 1932, is the director's 13th film in competition, while Leigh's "Mr. Turner" takes on a subject that the director has long had on his mind, celebrated English painter J.M.W. Turner, the great master of light on canvas.
The festival's most iconic pieces have centred around Circular Quay, in particular the Opera House, transformed each night into a canvas for the festival's sculptures of light.
Large oil-on-canvas pieces, these show latticed rows of light- and dark-grey blobs whose shapes quasi-repeat as they race across the frame, their angle modulating from painting to painting.
It is a blip of light on a dark canvas.
You have to find just the right spot — the far back of the room, slightly to the right — to make the reflections of light disappear from the canvas.
Searching in the Field of Light IV, acrylic on canvas and paper, 59 x36".
Slowly, one by one, tiny pinpricks of light appear in the black canvas of the night.
