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With a signed expertise by the artist dated November 2010. Provenance: Häusler Contemporary, Munich;Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The American artist Keith Sonnier is known for his light installations. He began to experiment with neon lights in the 1960s and, along with Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Richard Serra, became one of the main innovators of sculpture. His ideas go far beyond the traditional concept of volume; the inclusion of colours and their interplay expands the experience of space and its effect. As early as 1969, Keith Sonnier was represented in the epochal exhibition “Live in your head: When attitudes become form” in Bern, curated by Harald Szeemann. One of his most beautiful public installations can be experienced in Europe in the form of the over one kilometer long “light path” in Munich Airport. The present work bears the name of the sea god “Proteus”, a figure from Greek mythology who also inspired the Irish writer James Joyce. In his main work “Ulysses”, the third chapter also bears the title “Proteus”.