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A nighttime photo of a brutalist building topped with four glowing blue pyramid skylights and a high-rise in the background.

David Batchelor: Sixty Minute Spectrum, 2017

David Batchelor’s Sixty Minute Spectrum transforms large parts of our site into an enormous colourful clock.

Beginning the hour as a vivid red, the pyramid rooflights move gradually through the entire visual spectrum – at times throughout the cycle appearing orange, yellow, green, blue, purple or pink – before returning once more to red.

Sixty Minute Spectrum is part of Batchelor’s ongoing exploration of the intense, synthetic colour that characterises modern cities.

Location

Royal Festival Hall roof
Queen Elizabeth Hall roof
Hayward Gallery roof

Opening times

All day