Erwin Redl brings his ‘Whiteout’ art project to New York
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For its 35th exhibition, Madison Square Park Conservancy presents “Whiteout” by artist Erwin Redl. The project features a luminous white carpet of LED lights across Madison Square Park’s central Oval Lawn. “Whiteout” is comprised of hundrErwin Redl brings his ‘Whiteout’ art project to New York
For its 35th exhibition, Madison Square Park Conservancy presents “Whiteout” by artist Erwin Redl. The project features a luminous white carpet of LED lights across Madison Square Park’s central Oval Lawn. “Whiteout” is comprised of hundreds of transparent white spheres, each embedded with a white LED light and suspended from a square grid of steel poles and cabling. The orbs will gently sway with the wind currents from their positions of two feet above the ground plane. Redl will create a computer-generated undulating wave pattern across the work, slowly forming from north to south and south to north. The sequence of lights will be an incandescent treatment of urban public space across late fall and winter. Redl assesses white for its association with light, but also pushes the imagery through repetition and kinetic movement. The artist said, “I am intrigued by the Park’s option of a large-scale installation that blurs the border between the virtual and the real. The physicality of the swaying orbs in conjunction with the abstract animations of their embedded white lights allows the public to explore a new, hybrid reality in this urban setting.”Erwin Redl (b. Gföhl, Austria in 1963) is best known for creating spectacular light projects on the facades of buildings. He has studied the work of artists in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the late 1960s. He cites the Minimalist conceptual artist Fred Sandback as an inspiration. Redl’s work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, where the artist lit the facade of the museum. He was awarded a Percent for Art commission in 2014 by the City of New York for the New York Police Academy in Queens, and was also one of four artists to create work for the 2015 Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.The exhibition will be on view from November 16, 2017 through April 15, 2018, at Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, noted World Architecture News. Read more