Gabriel Dawe's Rainbow Invades the Amon Carter Museum

Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe studies the spectrum of visible light. His best-known works are installations made of colored threads that are projected into large spaces. The most recent of these is at the Amon Carter Museum, designed by architect Philip Johnson. in Texas.

More than 180 km of threads were manually “woven” into the museum’s structure with the help of scaffolding. According to curator Maggie Adler, Gabriel’s work is a unique form of expression that escapes the everyday, like true rainbows.

The colorful weave takes on architectural dimensions when completed. The lines are so fine that they dissolve into the colors in an ethereal and translucent way, like light itself. This misty aspect also has something three-dimensional: as you walk through space, the chromatic effect changes.

The design by legendary architect Philip Johnson seems perfect for the installation. The atrium's vault has four windows, allowing all types of light incidence, and therefore the entire Technicolor spectrum of the wires.

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