The Light Show at the Hayward Gallery, London is such an exhibition. It comprises 20 or so installations which all make use of light and the way it is radiated and reflected to great effect. As a response to the demands of the Futurist manifesto from 1909 to 'murder the moonlight', Katie Paterson has produced a lamp that emits a wavelength closest to that of moonlight. Suspended in isolation, it perfectly reminds you of the beauty of a blue silver moonlit night time in the wilderness. Ann Veronica Janssens uses a circles of seven equally spaced spotlights pointing inwards through a dry iced fug to produce the appearance of a solid floating star (see picture above). The Gestalt view that the 'whole is other than the sum of the parts' is demonstrated by the ascending sequence of fluorescent tubes from Brigitte Kowanz. Viewed from the front, the simple installation becomes a sweeping stairway that completely transforms a large empty space into a grand hallway and staircase. From the side you just see some lamps hung from the ceiling.
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