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KO. 96″ x 192″ x 96″. Ferrari 355 spider, birch, glass, aluminium, black steel, fluorescent lights. 2008

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British ANTHONY JAMES is a minimal artist experimenting with light and space. More revealing of JAMES’ talent is a series of light boxes filled with white birch and two-way mirrors. When viewed up close, a vast enchanted forest appears. It’s a stunning sight.

For KO installation, JAMES had crashed a brand new red Ferrari into a tree in Newburgh, N.Y. in 2008, with full permission of the Ferrari corporation, for whom he had installed one of his sculptures, a Ferrari that bisects the floor and ceiling of two floors at Ferrari headquarters on Park Avenue.

“I’ve always been making minimalist-inspired structures containing different universes,” says the Central St. Martins grad, describing his first, less successful, construct: “It was an aquarium. I used holographic lenses, so the fish looked like they were swimming upside down. But, at the time, I had a studio in Chinatown, and it was a really hot summer…” he says, fading out like the fish did.