Here is a picture of Chris Martin attending the Brian Eno “Luminous” Installation at Selfridges in London.
Chris Martin, Brian Eno and Alannah Weston attends an installation entitled Luminous, by sound and light artist Brian Eno, at Selfridges in central London.Brian Eno Illuminates, John Adams Conducts: Going Out in London
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — Visitors to Selfridges department store should be careful if they wander down to the basement looking to buy a television.
From tomorrow, in the store’s Ultralounge — a space set aside for special projects — 24 TV screens will be showing the latest work from polymath creative force Brian Eno. It’s not for sale.
Eno has done just about everything: a founder member of glam rock innovators Roxy Music, producer of some of U2’s best- known albums, pioneer of ambient music, visual artist, lecturer at London’s Royal College of Art, charity campaigner, diarist and stage performer with Luciano Pavarotti.
His latest work, “Luminous (77 Million Paintings),'’ is showing at Selfridges, while the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeastern England, will be showing a version entitled “The Constellations (77 Million Paintings)'’ from Jan. 31.
The installation consists of 300 slides created by Eno, digitized for computer, then projected on to the TV screens. They would take 9,000 years to watch were they to run in all possible forms. The visual show is enhanced by randomly generated ambient music. It’s a hypnotic and soothing experience, and be assured that the Selfridges version contains no subliminal messages about making a purchase from the perfume counter.
'Luminous' runs at the Ultralounge, Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London W1, from tomorrow through March 11. For more information, go to http://www.selfridges.com/
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