The Centre for International Light Art ( CILA , German: Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst ) is an art museum in Unna , Germany . It is the world's only museum which is exclusively dedicated to the collection and presentation of light art .
11-647: Abbreviation CILA may refer to: Centre for International Light Art CILA, the Mexican section of the International Boundary and Water Commission ( Spanish : Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas ) CILA-FM , a Catholic radio station in Quebec See also [ edit ] Cila (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
22-454: Is located at the heart of the city of Unna, in the former Linden brewery , a red brick industrial building complex dating from the 19th century. Its landmark is an installation of Fibonacci numbers by Italian artist Mario Merz . The light art installations are integrated into the industrial structures of the brewery's former cellar vaults. Hellweg In the Middle Ages , Hellweg was
33-425: The artwork Third Breath, 2005 by American light artist James Turrell is part of the permanent exhibition. It is a camera obscura , consisting of two rooms. In the lower, cubic room ( Camera Obscura Space ), the visitor sees an image of the sky which is being reflected through a lens on the ground. In the upper, cylindrical room ( Sky Space ), the sky can be seen directly through a hole in the ceiling. The opening of
44-592: The artwork was accompanied by the four-month exhibition James Turrell - Geometry of Light . The current temporary exhibition MORELLET shows the last exhibition of works by François Morellet which has been curated by the artist himself, shortly before his death in May 2016. In 2014, the temporary exhibition was Jan van Munster - L ich T (2014). The temporary exhibition ¡DARK! + Dark II (two, too) in 2015/2016 showed works by Anthony McCall , Diana Ramaekers , Regine Schumann , Vera Röhm , and Lucinda Devlin . In addition to
55-517: The imperial city of Aachen , when they were not in Italy or on campaign; very important imperial palaces were located in both Duisburg and Paderborn. From the Early Modern period, with the rise of the coal and steel industries, medieval towns founded along the trading route, e.g. Gelsenkirchen , Bochum , Essen or Dortmund , evolved into industrial hubs and absorbed most of the population growth of
66-606: The main road from the region of the lower Rhine east to the mountains of the Teutoburg Forest , linking the imperial cities of Duisburg , at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, and Paderborn , with the slopes of the Sauerland to its south. At Paderborn, it very probably continued into at least two other main imperial roads leading further east and north to the Harz mountains and
77-580: The middle Elbe river, and the lower Weser and lower Elbe rivers, respectively. The Westphalian Hellweg, as an essential corridor that operated in overland transit of long-distance trade , was used by Charlemagne in his Saxon wars and later was maintained under Imperial supervision. In the 10th and 11th centuries this Hellweg was the preferred route of the Ottonian and Salian kings and emperors travelling at least yearly between their main estates in Saxony and
88-515: The official and common name given to main travelling routes in Germany . Their breadth was decreed as an unimpeded passageway a lance 's width, about three metres, which the landholders, through which the Hellweg passed, were required to maintain. In German scholarship and literature, however, Helweg , i.e. when employed without an adjective , usually refers to the well-researched Westphalian Hellweg ,
99-620: The permanent and temporary exhibitions, the center organizes conferences, symposia and workshops, and serves as a forum for discussions. The CILA is a major part of the regional cultural project Hellweg - Ein Lichtweg ( Hellweg - A Way of Light ), which links light art projects along the historical Westphalian Hellweg travel route. Within a distance of only a few miles around the CILA, works by Rosemarie Trockel , Kazuo Katase , Michael Batz , Claudia Wissmann , and Jan Philip Scheibe are shown. The CILA
110-496: The region. The name Hellweg , connoting the wide "bright" clearway ( heller Weg ) through the forest, derives from Low German helwech with this same significance. Another etymology for Hellweg is from Salzweg , the " Salt road ", on the ancient roots hál-s (Greek), and hal (Celtic), "salt". Yet another meaning connotes a "Way of the Dead"; e.g., in Grimm's Worterbuch , Helvegr is
121-841: The title CILA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CILA&oldid=1255289166 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Spanish-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Centre for International Light Art The museum's permanent exhibition shows works by twelve internationally renowned light artists: James Turrell , Keith Sonnier , Mario Merz , Joseph Kosuth , Mischa Kuball , Rebecca Horn , Christina Kubisch , Jan van Munster , François Morellet , Christian Boltanski , Brigitte Kowanz and Olafur Eliasson . Since 2009,
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