Cuffs - Liliane Lijn

Inner Space – Outer Space – Same Distance, 1969

Lijn uses the cone as a cosmic totem, interleaving it with sections of the Earth seen from the Moon and sections of the lunar surface seen from Earth.
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Industrial Magic, 1969

Lijn’s obsession with cones is connected to her interest in industrial cooling towers. They belong to the same family of shapes and both forms seem to be connected to energy.
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Exit Matter Koan, 1969

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. Koans are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Breathing Cone, 1968

In Breathing Cone the blue area pulsates as the cone spins, slowly, as if the cone were breathing.
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Protons Are Positive, 1968

"Words float on its almost invisible skin and spin into space." Lijn
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Poemkon = D = 4 = Open = Apollinaire, 1968

Commissioned for Guillaume Apollinaire 1880-1918: A Celebration, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1968.
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Liquid Reflections (Multiple), 1968

Liquid Reflections were Lijn’s first and most complex works with water and light. The Liquid Reflections series, inspired by her interest in astronomy and the physics of light, was the outcome of 5 years of experimental work with plastics and fire, acrylic polymers, lenses, prisms, light and finally water.
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Homage to Charlie Parker, 1968

Lijn wanted the word to be seen in movement, dissolving into a pure vibration until it became the energy of sound.
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Green Line Cone, 1968

In Green Line Cone and in Breathing Cone Lijn found that by altering the way she passed light through Perspex, either through the edge or through the sheet, the quality of light changed dramatically.
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E=mc3, 1968

Text collaboration between Liliane Lijn and Nazli Nour.
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Liquid Reflections, 1967

Echolights II, 1967

Liliane Lijn at Indica

Indica, London. 1967.
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Prism Flares, 1967

In 1965 Lijn began to fabricate framed wall sculptures using thin acrylic sheets as surfaces and incorporating within the frame numerous small spotlights that were programmed to turn on and off sequentially to change the angle of incident light illuminating the surface.
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Linear Light Cylinder, 1967

This was the first large Linear Light Cylinder Lijn made. In this work, which is one of the rare horizontal cylinder pieces, the mechanism is left visible.
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Gold Cylinder, 1964/1967

Lijn was interested in the way a reflected line of light describes the altered surface of the cylinder and gives precise information about any changes made to its surface.
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