KAREL NEL `LOST LIGHT FUGITIVE IMAGES FROM SPACE`

KAREL NEL "LOST LIGHT FUGITIVE IMAGES FROM SPACE" IN VERY GOOD CONDITION

Much of Nel's most recent work has been informed by vast, faint emanations from deep space, transient images of light, infrared, radio or x-ray that left their source millions of years ago. Telescopes capture these emanations as they approach Earth, which become forever lost to our gaze once they pass the planet. Nel's involvement with astronomy as subject matter for his art began after his 2002 "Status of Dust" exhibition in New York, when he was approached by Nick Scoville, an eminent astronomer, to join a team of thirty of the world's top astronomers as their resident artist for the Cosmos Project. The purpose of this ambitious project is to map two square degrees of the universe.