Angela Bulloch's "To the Power of 4" Exhibition: Rule Systems in Art at the Secession

This exhibition at the Secession features artist Angela Bulloch's exploration of rule systems and organizational principles through multidisciplinary installations. It highlights her 'Pixelbox' works, which use modular lighting systems to create dynamic visual displays, drawing parallels with Minimal Art.

The exhibition 'To the Power of 4' by Angela Bulloch delves into the artist's central themes of rule systems and organizational principles, translating them into multidisciplinary installations that blend light, sound, text, video, and objects. A key focus is the 'Pixelbox', a three-dimensional cube utilizing a modular lighting system in primary colors (red, green, blue) to function as a high-resolution screen. This work echoes the geometric considerations and color compositions found in Minimal Art, referencing artists like Dan Flavin and Donald Judd. For this exhibition, Bulloch presents a new series of Pixelboxes that depart from transforming cinematic material, instead functioning as both architecture and figure. The show explores the tension between geometric structures, such as the room's design and the boxes themselves, and organic forms, enhanced by projections onto and within the boxes. The integration of time and movement is conceptualized as a logical principle rather than a physical unit. Projections of a dancer, an actor, and a performance artist onto the aluminum-clad exterior walls imbue the human-scaled boxes with distinct characters, referencing historical and contemporary experimental stage and expression forms. The arrangement of three large and two smaller Pixelboxes, loosely composed, breaks the room's geometric order, with visible connection cables and color/rhythm creating visual links. In the side aisles, Bulloch utilizes the Secession's wall system to create labyrinthine zones for two other works: 'Flexible Single (Lobster/Tilleul)' (2001) and 'Video Sound System' (1997/2004), both exploring the relationship between body, architecture, and media.

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