Final weeks to catch Ross Manning’s Spectra V, 2012 @govettbrewster in Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound.
Spectra V is a suspended kinetic sculpture which imbues the gallery walls with shifting chromatic washes of colour. Both affecting and sensorial, it produces an immersive experience for audiences on a somatic level, playing with ocular perception.
Spectra live colour mixes in concert with gravity, like an autonomous musical instrument performing aerial ballet to its own hidden optical soundtrack…
Ross Manning
Spectra V, 2012
wood, metal, fluorescent tubes, oscillating fans, power boards, power cords, dimensions variable. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2012. Image still: Cheska Brown
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Spectra V, 2012. Installation view, Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre, 2025. wood, metal, fluorescent tubes, oscillating fans, power boards, power cords, dimensions variable. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2012. Image Katie O'Neill.
