Liliane Lijn: Light Years at the Soane

Sculpture displayed throughout the Soane Museum by the artist Liliane Lijn. Known for her kinetic art, Lijn –who was born in New York, moved to Paris in the late-1950s and London in the 1960s, where she is based today – explores opposites such as solid and void, opacity and transparency in works that span different media. On show are early pieces such as 'Breathing Tower'(1971), a proposal for a ziggurat-like tower for the Hayward Gallery, and 'Whirling Wind Tower' (1970), a model for a tower intended to be 200 feet high and rotated by the wind to create music and a kaleidoscope of light, as well as some of her recent kinetic light sculpture, including the rotating 'Three Line Koan' (2008) in the museum's crypt.