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Light is the real stuff
James Carpenter has achieved fame as a light artist and designer of filigree glass constructions. He has mastered the entire toolbox of light design with a degree of skill attained by only very few of his contemporaries: its refraction and concentration, its absorption and reflection, its colour and its rhythmics.
Carpenter designs sensual total art works that constitute far more than simply a decorative add-on to the buildings of others. The pinnacle of his career to date could also be a turning point for Carpenter. Will he remain the author of spatial drama that he is today, or will he take the route of a professional service provider in the subject of light architecture?
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