Angela Bulloch Aquila Winter Quartile, 2021
LED lights, blue felt, aluminum frame, mounted on freestanding column
400 x 66 x 66 cm (157 1/2 x 26 x 26 in)
Drawing on the constellations visible on the winter sky from the Northern Hemisphere, Aquila Winter Quartile is an exceptional sculptural iteration from Angela Bulloch's body of work known as Night Sky. The works of the Night Sky series are complex LED pieces that can be hung on the wall or ceiling and that convey an animated image of the night sky. The blue background of the work is filled with numerous programmed LED lights, placed according to the pattern of a galaxy or constellation. Gently flickering, the points of light simulate the changing starry nightscape. Night Sky works are prepared using a program that maps the positions of the stars visible from the earth in a 3D virtual model of the universe. The artist selects an existing area of the sky but displaces the viewpoint away from the earth elsewhere in the universe, thus the final image represents the real stellar order but shown in a way that will not be seen in this way from the surface of Earth.
The title refers to one of the constellations visible, Aquila, located in the northern sky, on the celestial equator. The constellation’s name means “the eagle” in Latin. The constellation represents the eagle of the god Jupiter in Roman mythology. It was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– The work can be installed as a 4m freestanding column, or mounted on an existing column, as at Esther Schipper November 2021.
– Electrical wiring should be hidden.
The title refers to one of the constellations visible, Aquila, located in the northern sky, on the celestial equator. The constellation’s name means “the eagle” in Latin. The constellation represents the eagle of the god Jupiter in Roman mythology. It was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
INSTALLATION SPECIFICATIONS:
– The work can be installed as a 4m freestanding column, or mounted on an existing column, as at Esther Schipper November 2021.
– Electrical wiring should be hidden.