TOMAS ERNESTO MUNOZ
Funeral chapel
The funeral chapel, completed in 1928, is part of the garden monument. Towards the end of the Second World War, the Dorotheenstädtischer Cementery was heavily damaged. Through a generous private artist donation by a Berlin citizen, it was possible to connect the planned reconstruction of the chapel by Nedelykov Moreira architects with a light installation by the American artist James Turrell, thereby contributing to the further development of the Dorotheenstadt cemetery.
With his artistic concept for the redesign of the chapel, James Turrell moves very close to biblical ideas of light. God is understood as light, as an overflowing light source. God as the source of all things is light. In the Christian tradition of Western Europe, these representations are gaining first-time architectural form in the Gothic church building of the Middle Ages. Light becomes a building material. In comparison to the Gothic church architecture, the rooms created by Turrell are not illuminated in the conventional sense - they are rather filled with light and color.
Funeral chapel
The funeral chapel, completed in 1928, is part of the garden monument. Towards the end of the Second World War, the Dorotheenstädtischer Cementery was heavily damaged. Through a generous private artist donation by a Berlin citizen, it was possible to connect the planned reconstruction of the chapel by Nedelykov Moreira architects with a light installation by the American artist James Turrell, thereby contributing to the further development of the Dorotheenstadt cemetery.
With his artistic concept for the redesign of the chapel, James Turrell moves very close to biblical ideas of light. God is understood as light, as an overflowing light source. God as the source of all things is light. In the Christian tradition of Western Europe, these representations are gaining first-time architectural form in the Gothic church building of the Middle Ages. Light becomes a building material. In comparison to the Gothic church architecture, the rooms created by Turrell are not illuminated in the conventional sense - they are rather filled with light and color.