AngelaBulloch makes cool, immaculately fabricated mixed-media sculptures which often include functional elements that can be activated by the viewer, or that are modified by the passing of time.
AngelaBulloch was born in Ontario, Canada in 1966 and studied at Goldsmiths College from 1985 to 1988.
She was shortlisted in 1997 for her inventive use of a wide range of mixed media, as demonstrated in life/live at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Since the end of the 1980s AngelaBulloch has produced works that vary greatly in appearance, they have nonetheless one topic in common: namely the handling and projections about the regulatory nature and organisational structures of our past and present life systems.
AngelaBulloch's works are either of an impersonal, technical nature or their aesthetic is determined by the technology employed (video, film, sound or image processing, etc.).
Bulloch collaborated with Holger Friese to create a special modular light mixing system that allows 1.6 million colours to be mixed thanks to fluorescent tubes in the three screen colours red, green and blue.
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AngelaBulloch's sculptural works make use of simple technology to emit noise, produce light, and draw on the wall, among other things, at the touch, sound, or movement of the viewer.
Bulloch's earliest participatory works were environments with light or sound that were affected by the presence of the viewer.
Bulloch's interest in the process of how a work evolves through time is connected to her use of simple technology.
At the Secession, AngelaBulloch is showing a new series of pixel boxes.
AngelaBulloch works with the tension between geometrical grid patterns (floor and ceiling design in the main space, form of the box) and organic bodies, extending their relationship by means of projections onto and into the boxes.
In this context, the factors of "time" and "movement", like the notion of the "pixel", are to be understood not as physical units but as a logical principle–as a conceptual space.
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The 34-year-old Canadian artist AngelaBulloch is the winner of the light competition conducted by the Province of Upper Austria and the company Gerngroß Kaufhaus AG.
AngelaBulloch's concept includes 56 light units, which measure 50 x 50 cm each and are positioned in four significant locations.
An essential component of AngelaBulloch's concept is the interactive use of the modular system.
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AngelaBulloch creates binary systems within spaces which function according to the principle of "on" and "off".
When we sit down on the "Sound Clash Benches", for example, the sound of a video displayed on a monitor is turned on ("Video Sound Systems", 1997), or a "drawing machine" is set in motion whose otherwise vertical lines run horizontally for the duration of time we remain seated ("Betaville", 1994).
Bulloch's understanding of participation is based on the viewer's status as a social subject.
Perhaps the most characteristic example of this are the Rules compiled by Bulloch: a multitude of instructions, regulations and rules related to different areas of social intercourse.
Bulloch wishes not only to expose such hidden structures but also to provide – through specific locations, circumstances or objects – insight on behavior and the interaction of ideas.
It is as though Bulloch hereby provides the principles of minimal art with an unexpected but recognizably physical component, and the colorful installation becomes part of a nimble choreography.
With her work Bulloch thus moves at the interface between abstraction and imagined pictoriality: What happens here in terms of color never becomes completely detached from the processed original material, that is to say, it is never pure abstraction but always also an abstraction of SOMETHING.
The pixel boxes thrive from this tension in all their different (theme-related) constellations: on the one hand, the minimalistic surface/form, and on the other, the semantic sound box – the trace of memory accompanying a given piece, based for instance on the filmic memories of the viewers.
At the Engholm Engelhorn Galerie AngelaBulloch is also presenting a piece that refers to a photograph that was made from the inside of a pixel box.
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Like many artists of her generation, Canadian-born, Berlin-based Bulloch is drawn as much to the media as to the history of art.
For this exhibition, her most significant in the U.S., Bulloch will present an installation centered on one of her large-scale "pixel box" works, which have been the primary focus of her energies in the last few years.
While Bulloch's pixel box works refer both to various gridded, box-like, and light-based sculptures of Minimalism and Postminimalism, her interest in presenting actual subject matter in a striking visual spectacle aligns her firmly with more recent artistic practice.
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AngelaBulloch combines the series of three large boxes with two smaller formats.
In the side aisles, AngelaBulloch uses the gallery's own wall system to create maze-like zones for further works: Flexible Single (Lobster/Tilleul) (2001) and Video Sound System (1997/2004) are both display systems.
For the Secession, AngelaBulloch has selected eight tables: they can be recombined in numerous ways, serving the artist as a display for further works–including print-outs and posters–that are closely related to the overall concept of the show.
Bulloch and Gillick rejected this curatorial directive and chose to take a `pre-football, before Karaoke` stance.
This action involved digging a hole decorated with bunting and protected by a Herold-like wooden structure outside the main entrance to the space; planting a meadow on the land surrounding the building; and producing a video-manifesto at the Frankfurt Sportverband Hostel where all the British artists were housed.
AngelaBulloch (Canada/UK) and Liam Gillick (UK) have exhibited internationally since the early 90s.
Two Soundtracks for AngelaBulloch continues in this vein, though the relationship is more complicated, as the Bulloch works that Grubbs has soundtracked, Z Point and Horizontal Technicolour, refer back to Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
Bulloch’s Z Point turns the explosion scene from Zabriskie Point into a ‘pixel module’ of blocks of color, and Grubbs uses explosion sounds as punctuation for his soundtrack.
Grubbs’ instrumental compositions sound as though they are repeatedly questioning their own decisions; there is a critical internal rigor to Grubbs’ work, and his compositions shift slowly, taking on new meanings as they connect with varying contexts.
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This is the second in a series of works for the Thames Path Public Art Strategy which provides artists with the opportunity to research and realise works which challenge our views of the Thames.
AngelaBulloch¹s work takes us on a short abstracted journey from the narrow gap between the raising roadways of Tower Bridge the chink to the expansive view seen from the old loading pier in front of Bankside Power Station Panorama Island.
AngelaBulloch has emerged as an artist of international significance over the past five years.
Raedecker creates haunting paintings--landscapes, abstract and figurative, sometimes a bit of both--with the use of oils and thread and gothic colors imbued with a sense of the spiritual and the humorous.
Huyghe reassesses conceptual art concerns by reinterpreting familiar films and themes in popular culture; he also draws on disregarded aspects of everyday life, such as time and alienation, and brings them back into our awareness.
Bulloch's participatory sculptures explore the physical and psychological aspects of space by using simple light and sound effects that require the viewer's active participation.
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MACROMATRIX will be installed vertically, with AngelaBulloch's sound sculpture placed in the museum lobby, Chiho Aoshima's site-specific digital wall mural on the wall of the lobby, and Cai Guo-Qiang's electric "fireworks" installation located in Gallery 2.
Along with her astonishing, highly fabricated palette, it is a successful means by which to trick the viewer into looking.
AngelaBulloch's earliest works were participatory environments that included light and/or sound that reacted to the presence of the viewer.
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present Antimatter3, an exhibit displaying the new works of British artist AngelaBulloch, born in 1966.
Already in January, 2000, AngelaBulloch presented works from the Pixel Box series.
As she has already done in her earlier pixel works, AngelaBulloch constructs a discourse of tension between the films narrative and the formal scope of the work.
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As such, the work becomes a kind of democratic collaboration of action and choice between Bulloch and her audience' (Bussel 1987 p 85).
It is as pompous as the title of the work, and symptomatic of what happens when an attempt is made to justify work in the gallery which doesn't need or belong in the gallery.
What Bussel says doesn't distinguish Bulloch's inflatable from the rows of machines in the Tate Gallery's basement which are activated by the intervention of a democratic show of hands underneath their patent hot air vents.