The Materiality of the Light as Decisive Factor for Light Art

Becoming one of the tools and materials of the art arsenal, the light has not lost its self-worth and remains attractive for consideration by artists as a natural phenomenon. Parallel to this is redefining the perception of works of art as part of a conceptual approach to the visual, to create jobs, for which the principal artistic solution is precisely the choice of light as a material because of its semantic superstructure. Both Western and Eastern cultures have a clear definition of light as a sign. Light is coupled with both the "air", in terms of "divine, sublime corresponding religious eposes and the general category of "ethereal " including ghosts, spirits superpowers — existence paranormal,"unstable "unusual phenomena and Images. This reading of the light as a sign in the works of contemporary art are analyzed and disclosed in different ways: if the number of artists takes the position of researchers wondering searching for the causes of this associative array, questioning and sometimes ridicule these "primitive" emotions generated by the collision of man [and in the space of the exhibition hall — the audience with light in both art and life situations, the other category of artists [more numerous] works with light, when imaya cultural reading and fixed in the minds of associative series as the norm, creating a product, read the embedded meanings of which can only be subject to the "rules" of these works are created on the basis of cultural codes, conceptions of the world. Light art, like other arts, adapts and commercializes, finds its use in the market entertainment industry. Artists practicing an art based on computer programming, do not change his style, apply their own experience and technology projects that are not related to any street-art or to the formal, "the gallery" art — creating light compositions, both static And dynamic, as part of the design of temporary architectural objects, musical performances and fashion shows.