[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":87},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-grimanesa-amoros-lights-up-printemps-new-york":3},[4],{"id":5,"link":6,"title":7,"content":9,"acf":12,"yoast_head_json":16},34927,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Farticle\u002Fgrimanesa-amoros-lights-up-printemps-new-york\u002F",{"rendered":8},"Grimanesa Amorós Lights Up Printemps New York",{"rendered":10,"protected":11},"\u003Cp>The Peruvian-American artist transforms One Wall Street with a luminous installation, inviting visitors to step inside Printemps New York and experience its art-filled world.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cfigure>\r\n\u003Cimg alt=\"PERFECT TIMING, a site-specific light installation by Grimanesa Amorós on Wall Street, New York City, featuring suspended luminous sculptures that pulse and shift through warm golds, vibrant ambers, and subtle silvers, creating a rhythmic interplay of glowing light and shadow across the architectural space, evoking the flow of time and the energy of the urban environment in an immersive, radiant experience.\"\r\nclass=\"lazyload\"\r\nsrc=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimagedelivery\u002F8b7Mr6loSNKbwTe7bBsNMw\u002FGrimanesa-Amoros-Perfect-Timing-Printemps-08.jpg\u002Fformat=auto,quality=85,w=1920,h=1920\">\r\n\u003Cfigcaption>\r\nGrimanesa Amorós, “Perfect Timing,” 2026 at Printemps New York. Photo: Alec Guerrini\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigure>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>One Wall Street sits at the heart of New York City’s financial district, at the junction of Wall Street and Broadway. An art deco masterpiece, the 1931 building represents not only a certain time in the history of the city, but a renewed landmark on its contemporary landscape as the location of the first U.S. outpost of the historic French luxury department store Printemps. Extending the Paris stores’ legacy of working with artists, the brand has commissioned an installation by \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sothebys.com\u002Fen\u002Farticles\u002Fgrimanesa-amoros-lights-up-printemps-new-york\">Peruvian-American artist Grimanesa Amorós\u003C\u002Fa> that responds to the light, architecture and tempo of its dynamic location.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fpubliccommission\u002Fperfect-timing-printemps-wall-street\u002F\">“Perfect Timing”\u003C\u002Fa> pulses with the rhythm of New York and Paris, its palette reflecting the sky at sunset. Using light as its medium, with sequences arranged like a musical score, the work is situated to inspire passers-by and to act as a sensory gateway, an experience that separates the energy of the streets from the curated atmosphere inside. Its curves echo the lines of the building and the pulse that runs through the LEDs represents the energy of the place. Flowing through the space, and facing towards the street, the work communicates with the surrounding community.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cfigure>\r\n\u003Cimg alt=\"Grimanesa Amoros in front of her latest light sculpture, PERFECT TIMING, a site-specific light installation on Wall Street, New York City, featuring suspended luminous sculptures that pulse and shift through warm golds, vibrant ambers, and subtle silvers.\"\r\nclass=\"lazyload\"\r\nsrc=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimagedelivery\u002F8b7Mr6loSNKbwTe7bBsNMw\u002FGrimanesa-Amoros-Printemps-Portrait-Vertical.jpg\u002Fformat=auto,q=85,w=1920,h=1920\">\r\n\u003Cfigcaption>\r\nPeruvian-American light artist Grimanesa Amorós. Photo: Alec Guerrini\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigure>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>With “Perfect Timing,” Amorós worked up to 18-hour days studying the space from both inside and outside the building, absorbing the rhythm of the city and how people moved through the streets throughout the day. “I stood in the corner, and I saw how people actually go into Printemps. Some of them run in and very, very quickly. Some others walk slowly. They pause, and so that made me adjust the sequence in order to be universal. I had to respond to time itself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>While Amorós’ work utilizes technology and engineering, its conceptual basis remains rooted in nature and the natural world. Before creating with the interwoven strands of LED lights, she researched the color and structure of the surrounding environment. Intricate study over time of the architecture, the habits of the people that live in the area and the sunsets allows Amorós to parse these elements into the work that will later exist among it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>“That’s why I chose the colors and then the sequence of the piece, which basically runs with the pulse of New York. There’s a moment, for example, when the whole sequence becomes red and moves faster and then—boom—there is a moment of calmness again,” Amorós explains. Recreating colors from the natural world is a precise science, she says: “So I start from scratch, right? Nothing, no algorithms, nothing that is already previously made. It’s like a composer creating music, you work on every note. It’s the same thing with when I make my lighting sequences, not only in the timing, but it’s also in the hues.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cfigure>\r\n\u003Cimg alt=\"“Perfect Timing” viewed from inside Printemps New York at One Wall Street. Photo: Alec Guerrini\"\r\nclass=\"lazyload\"\r\nsrc=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimagedelivery\u002F8b7Mr6loSNKbwTe7bBsNMw\u002FGrimanesa-Amoros-Perfect-Timing-Printemps-07.jpg\u002Fformat=auto,q=85,w=1920,h=1920\">\r\n\u003Cfigcaption>\r\n“Perfect Timing” viewed from inside Printemps New York at One Wall Street. Photo: Alec Guerrini\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\r\n\u003C\u002Ffigure>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>Printemps New York has plans to showcase more art in the near future. “We have more artist collaborations in the next coming months,” teases Provost, but he is not rushing. After commissioning “Perfect Timing,” he recalls that the process was very much about supporting the Amorós in realizing her vision. “Our side was really to make sure that, on the technical side, everything would be done properly so Grimanesa could execute what she wanted from the power supply to the humidity and temperature controls,” Provost explains.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>It was this freedom that enabled her to embrace the challenge of realizing the work. “They gave me complete, 100% freedom and that’s incredible,” reflects Amorós. “I cannot speak for my fellow artists, but in my case, I respond to that freedom, because that makes me feel the responsibility to make it happen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>Even a brief encounter with “Perfect Timing” transforms One Wall Street, inviting passers-by not just to look up, but to step inside and experience the work—and the immersive world of Printemps—for themselves. In a city defined by pace and routine, Amorós’ luminous installation offers a rare moment of pause, a spark of wonder that lingers long after leaving the store.\u003C\u002Fp>\r\n\r\n\u003Cp>\u003Ci>“Perfect Timing” by Grimanesa Amorós can be seen at Printemps New York until mid-March 2026.\u003C\u002Fi>\u003C\u002Fp>",false,{"poster-image":13,"press-pub_date":14,"press-writer":15,"press_writer_url":13},"","February 6, 2026","Amah-Rose Abrams",{"title":17,"description":18,"robots":19,"canonical":6,"og_locale":25,"og_type":26,"og_title":17,"og_description":18,"og_url":6,"og_site_name":27,"article_modified_time":28,"og_image":29,"twitter_card":35,"schema":36},"Grimanesa Amorós Lights Up Printemps New York | GRIMANESA AMOROS","Light artist Grimanesa Amorós transforms One Wall Street with Perfect Timing, a luminous installation inside Printemps New York.",{"index":20,"follow":21,"max-snippet":22,"max-image-preview":23,"max-video-preview":24},"index","follow","max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview:-1","en_US","article","GRIMANESA AMOROS","2026-05-05T16:58:45+00:00",[30],{"width":31,"height":32,"url":33,"type":34},1024,683,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F11\u002FGrimanesa-Amorós-Perfect-Timing-Printemps-03-1024x683.jpg","image\u002Fjpeg","summary_large_image",{"@context":37,"@graph":38},"https:\u002F\u002Fschema.org",[39,55,60,74],{"@type":40,"@id":6,"url":6,"name":17,"isPartOf":41,"primaryImageOfPage":43,"image":45,"thumbnailUrl":46,"datePublished":47,"dateModified":28,"description":18,"breadcrumb":48,"inLanguage":50,"potentialAction":51},"WebPage",{"@id":42},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002F#website",{"@id":44},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Farticle\u002Fgrimanesa-amoros-lights-up-printemps-new-york\u002F#primaryimage",{"@id":44},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F11\u002FGrimanesa-Amoros-Perfect-Timing-Printemps-03.jpg","2026-03-19T19:34:28+00:00",{"@id":49},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Farticle\u002Fgrimanesa-amoros-lights-up-printemps-new-york\u002F#breadcrumb","en-US",[52],{"@type":53,"target":54},"ReadAction",[6],{"@type":56,"inLanguage":50,"@id":44,"url":46,"contentUrl":46,"width":57,"height":58,"caption":59},"ImageObject",2500,1667,"Grimanesa Amoros PERFECT TIMING light installation for PRINTEMPS New York",{"@type":61,"@id":49,"itemListElement":62},"BreadcrumbList",[63,68,72],{"@type":64,"position":65,"name":66,"item":67},"ListItem",1,"Home","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002F",{"@type":64,"position":69,"name":70,"item":71},2,"Articles","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002Farticle\u002F",{"@type":64,"position":73,"name":8},3,{"@type":75,"@id":42,"url":67,"name":27,"description":13,"alternateName":76,"potentialAction":77,"inLanguage":50},"WebSite","Grimanesa Amoros",[78],{"@type":79,"target":80,"query-input":83},"SearchAction",{"@type":81,"urlTemplate":82},"EntryPoint","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.grimanesaamoros.com\u002F?s={search_term_string}",{"@type":84,"valueRequired":85,"valueName":86},"PropertyValueSpecification",true,"search_term_string",1778711980338]