Erwin Redl
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Erwin Redl in Gföhl
, Lower Austria
is an Austrian-born
artist
currently living in USA. As artistic medium he uses LED
s. His work includes installations, videos, graphics, computerart and electronic music.
, where he studied Computer Art
at the School of Visual Arts
, he graduated in 1995. With his artwork "Matrix VI" he lit the face of the Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York during the Whitney Biennial
2002.
His works, some of them are named Matrix, were shown in New York, Germany, France, Austria and Korea. The installation called Fade I allow visitors to move into lit spaces. These installations were shown in Lille
, France
, where it animated the Eglise Sainte-Marie Madeleine.
Erwn Redl's "Nocturnal Flow" has been installed in the Paul G. Allen Center. The artwork, a 85-foot brick column at the west end of the atrium, was chosen by the Washington State Arts Commission. It was supported by the Washington State's Art in Public Places Program.
Erwin Redl lives and works in New York.
Gföhl
Gföhl is a town in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria....
, Lower Austria
Lower Austria
Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...
is an Austrian-born
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
currently living in USA. As artistic medium he uses LED
LEd
LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....
s. His work includes installations, videos, graphics, computerart and electronic music.
Life and work
Erwin Redl studied electronic music and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Then he moved to New YorkNew York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, where he studied Computer Art
Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
at the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
, he graduated in 1995. With his artwork "Matrix VI" he lit the face of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
in New York during the Whitney Biennial
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
2002.
His works, some of them are named Matrix, were shown in New York, Germany, France, Austria and Korea. The installation called Fade I allow visitors to move into lit spaces. These installations were shown in Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where it animated the Eglise Sainte-Marie Madeleine.
Erwn Redl's "Nocturnal Flow" has been installed in the Paul G. Allen Center. The artwork, a 85-foot brick column at the west end of the atrium, was chosen by the Washington State Arts Commission. It was supported by the Washington State's Art in Public Places Program.
Erwin Redl lives and works in New York.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1998 Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
- 2000 "emerging artists 2000" Museum Essl, KlosterneuburgKlosterneuburgKlosterneuburg is an attractive small town in Lower Austria, Austria with a population of 24,442.It is located on the Danube, immediately north of Vienna, from which it is separated by the Kahlenberg and Leopoldsberg hills...
- 2001 Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
- 2002 Whitney Biennial 2002 Whitney Museum, New York
- 2004 Lille 2004 – European Capital of Culture, Lille;
- 2005 "Die Postmediale Kondition", Neue Galerie, GrazGrazThe more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
- 2005 "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht", ZKM KarlsruheKarlsruheThe City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
- 2005 "Ectasy" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
- 2005 "Erwin Redl: MATRIX XII" Plug In Institute Of Contemporary Art, WinnipegWinnipegWinnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
- 2005 "Licht! Ljus! Lumiere!" Haus der Berliner Festspiele, BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
- 2006 "Erwin Redl", Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
- 2006 "SWITCHING WORLDS", Austrian Cultural ForumAustrian Cultural ForumAn Austrian Cultural Forum is an agency of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, whose task consists of the cultural and scientific dialogue with artists and scientists of each particular host country....
, New York - 2006 ARCO 2006, ARCO madird, MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
- 2007 "Vom Funken zum Pixel", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Public Collections
- ACE GALLERY Los Angeles,
- C3 Budapest, BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... - Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria