Pittsburgh
On Friday, June 17, 2016, William Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, flipped the switch to unveil the Mattress Factory’s new light commission, Acupuncture, a permanent public art installation created by German artist Hans Peter Kuhn. Berlin-based Kuhn is an ingenious self-taught artist and composer who makes large-scale, site-specific light and sound environments for public spaces. In 1978, he met Robert Wilson, the avant-garde theater director, while Wilson was working on Death, Destruction & Detroit. This began a 20-year collaboration in which Kuhn produced the music and sound environments for more than 30 of Wilson’s productions…see the entire review in the print version of January/February’s Sculpture magazine.
