Curated: Valences by Kal Mansur
Kal Mansur is best known for his luminous translucent sculptures made of painted plexiglass. These artworks absorb and reflect light, allowing the viewer to visually travel through the composition. Embedded fluorescent pigments project colour through the edges.
“After twenty years as a painter it occurred to me that light is a medium in and of itself. I began using coloured plexiglass and developed a process of cutting, gluing, sanding, and buffing to alter its levels of translucency and reflectiveness. The way the material imbues colour with volume is especially intriguing. The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille, that is, a language by which colour, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.”
—Kal Mansur
