Bass
Project: Bass
Light Artist / Designer: Steve McQueen
Visiolite Products Used: Visiolite Vibrance, Visiolite RGBW.
A Vibrant Symphony
Steve's installation uses the Visiolite Exclusive Vibrance(tm) strip in combination withe RGB to achieve 7 channel color mixing, achieving every wavelength of the visible spectrum.
Steve McQueen at DIA Beacon
The British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen installed “Bass” at DIA Beacon. The immersive environment spans 35,000 feet, with 60 lightboxes that cycle through the spectrum of visible light as bass music plays.
When the DIA Art Foundation invited Steve McQueen to create a work for its museum in Beacon, N.Y., the curators assumed that he’d propose a film or video project. It made sense: McQueen is the British director of the Oscar-winning best picture “12 Years a Slave” (2013) and other acclaimed movies such as “Hunger” and “Shame.” And long before that, he was already a prominent contemporary artist known for experimental films with wildly varying themes, lengths, and display methods, often in museum galleries. [ Official Site ]
Article: Discover New Depths in Steve McQueen's "Bass" at DIA Beacon
The artist-turned-film director finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound in DIA Beacon keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.” — New York Times [ Link ]
Steve McQueen, Bass, 2024. Installation view, Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024–April 14, 2025. © Steve McQueen. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation |
Steve McQueen, Bass (detail), 2024. Installation view, Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024–April 14, 2025. © Steve McQueen. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation |
Steve McQueen, Bass, 2024. Installation view, Dia Beacon, New York, May 12, 2024–April 14, 2025. © Steve McQueen. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation |
Steve McQueen, Bass (detail), 2024. © Steve McQueen. Photo: Don Stahl. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation |
