LIGHTING THE SAILS
Sydney Opera House
26 May - 14 June
Daily 6pm - 1am
Free event
77 MILLION PAINTINGS
The Studio
26 May - 21 June
Mon - Sat 12 noon - 10pm Sun 12 noon - 6pm
Free event
LIGHT INSTALLATION
LIGHTING THE SAILS

In a major artwork by Eno, LUMINOUS launches with the lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails. Like a freeform painting, Utzon's masterpiece will glow with rich, continuously changing configurations of colour. Presented in association with Smart Light, the sails will remain lit for the three weeks of LUMINOUS.

77 MILLION PAINTINGS

'Layers of gorgeous, intensely coloured abstract images appear, morph and dissolve into one another, then fade away into something entirely new.' TIME MAGAZINE

Welcome to Eno's audio-visual masterpiece, 77 Million Paintings.

Conceived as 'visual music' and using 'self-generating' software, three hundred of Eno's hand-drawn images are cut-up, rearranged and realigned to produce infinite variations. Completely random, entirely original, constantly evolving, the results come to life on luminous screens in a brilliant display of colour, shape
and form. To complete the experience, layers of ambient sound interweave to create a mesmerising soundscape.

Shown at the Venice Biennale and the Milan Triennale, as well as in Tokyo, London and San Francisco, 77 Million Paintings will run throughout the whole
of LUMINOUS as a free event in The Studio.

Viewing numbers at any one time are limited; there may be queues.

SUPPORTING PATRON: 77 MILLION PAINTINGS - THE KEIR FOUNDATION

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