Keith Sonnier
1941年7月31日- 2020年7月18日

Keith Sonnier是一群艺术家中的一员，他们在20世纪60年代末通过实验工业和短暂的材料来挑战先入为主的雕塑观念。在索尼尔的作品中，材料从乳胶和缎子，到现成的物品、发射器和视频。1968年，艺术家开始使用白炽灯和透明织物创作墙壁雕塑。他对白炽灯的标准化形式感到沮丧，开始尝试霓虹灯。索尼尔以铜管为模板，开始绘制线条、拱门和曲线，最终在玻璃管封闭的霓虹灯中实现。霓虹灯的线性特性使Sonnier能够用光和颜色来描绘空间，而彩色的光与周围的建筑相互作用。

Keith Sonnier经常以系列作品创作，其中一些作品贯穿了他的整个艺术生涯。这些早期的实验性雕塑作品的元素在后来的建筑装置中经常可以辨认出巨大的规模。在过去的40年里，Keith Sonnier开创性的Ba-O-Ba系列作品在卡津人的教养中得到了发展，这是一个俗语。2003年，这位艺术家改造了Gordon Bunshaft的标志性建筑Lever House，并将其作为他在纽约市的第一个主要建筑展示。在BA- o -BA Lever House之前，Sonnier在2002年探索了霓虹灯的可能性，为密斯·凡·德罗在柏林的新国家美术馆的外部设计了一个临时装置，名为BA- o -BA Berlin。

Keith Sonnier因其著名地标的大型作品而获得国际认可。2000年，艺术家在奥地利彼得·卒姆托(Peter Zumthor)的布雷根茨美术馆(Kunsthaus Bregenz)的四个侧面创作了一个临时霓虹灯装置，名为“千年2000”。这个大型装置与“Keith Sonnier:环境作品1968-99”展览同时展出。2004年，这位艺术家创作了洛杉矶最大的公共装置之一。Motordom(2004)照亮了Thom Mayne的Caltrans第七区大楼的庭院，作为红色霓虹灯和蓝色氩气的永久装置。

Keith Sonnier
July 31， 1941 - July 18, 2020
Keith Sonnier was part of a group of artists who challenged preconceived notions of sculpture in the late 1960s by experimenting with industrial and ephemeral materials.. In Sonnier’s case, materials ranged from latex and satin, to found objects, transmitters and video. In 1968, the artist began creating wall sculptures using incandescent light and sheer fabric. Frustrated by the standardized forms of incandescent light, he started experimenting with neon. Using copper tubing as a template, Sonnier began sketching lines, arches and curves ultimately realized in glass tubing enclosed neon. The linear quality of neon allowed Sonnier to draw in space with light and color while colored light interacted with the surrounding architecture.

Sonnier often worked in series, some of which spanned the length of the artist’s career. Elements of these early experimental sculptural works were often recognizable in the later architectural installations on a monumental scale. Deriving from a colloquial term from the artist’s Cajun upbringing, Sonnier’s seminal Ba-O-Ba series has developed over the past 40 years. In 2003, the artist transformed Gordon Bunshaft’s iconic Lever House with a site-specific installation as his first major architectural presentation in New York City. Prior to BA-O-BA Lever House, Sonnier explored the possibilities of neon with a temporary installation for the exterior of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue National galerie in Berlin in 2002, entitled BA-O- BA Berlin.

Keith Sonnier received international recognition for his large-scale works specific to renowned landmarks. In 2000, the artist created a temporary neon installation on four façades of Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, entitled Millennium 2000. The large-scale installation coincided with the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Environmental Works 1968-99. In 2004, the artist created one of Los Angeles’s largest public installations. Motordom (2004) illuminates the courtyard of Thom Mayne’s Caltrans District 7 Building as a permanent installation of red neon and blue argon.