{"id":73,"date":"2009-08-07T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-08-07T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:39:00","slug":"eu-has-outlawed-incandescent-lights-what-about-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"EU has outlawed incandescent lights&#8230; what about art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforum.com\/news\/mode=international&amp;week=200931\">Artforum<\/a>, I found it via <a href=\"http:\/\/c-monster.net\/blog1\/2009\/08\/07\/the-digest-080709\/\">C-Monster<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Come September 1, the European Union has banned the sale of incandescent lightbulbs. As the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung\u2019s Till Briegleb reports, the ban will have an impact on art, specifically works that use lightbulbs for either functional, aesthetic, or historical effects. A case in point is the work of the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov, who often hangs a bare lightbulb in his installations as a melancholic homage to the Soviet-era ideal of electricity, which was not always available to the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, there are no exceptions to [the law] 2005\/32\/EG\u201d writes Briegleb. \u201cAnd thus artists, restorers, and museum technicians find themselves faced with the bizarre necessity of small-time criminality.\u201d Kabakov is not the only artist to use bulbs. There are 140 in L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy\u2019s Light-Space-Modulator; the German post\u2013Word War II \u201cZero\u201d Group was fond of lightbulbs. There\u2019s a host of contemporary artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Carsten H\u00f6ller, Jorge Pardo, Valie Export, Stephan Huber, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, and Adrian Paci. Even artists who did not work explicitly with lightbulbs have used them: Rauschenberg, Kienholz, Tinguely, and Beuys.<\/p>\n<p>As Briegleb notes, the illegal sale of lightbulbs\u2014even to museums\u2014comes with a hefty fine: $70,000. Even if the existing bulbs could be saved, it\u2019s clear that the supply will eventually be exhausted. To keep a lightbulb work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres or H\u00f6ller shining bright, museums and collectors will need more than one thousand bulbs, since the traditional ones tend to last on average sixty to eighty days under the kind of constant use that is typical for such installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Artforum, I found it via C-Monster. Come September 1, the European Union has banned the sale of incandescent lightbulbs. As the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung\u2019s Till Briegleb reports, the ban will have an impact on art, specifically works that use lightbulbs for either functional, aesthetic, or historical effects. A case in point is the work of the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov, who often hangs a bare lightbulb in his installations as a melancholic homage to the Soviet-era ideal of electricity, which was not always available to the citizens. \u201cUnfortunately, there are no exceptions to [the law] 2005\/32\/EG\u201d writes Briegleb.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=73\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EU has outlawed incandescent lights&#8230; what about art?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[141,144,159],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}