German artist Tobias Rehberger has created an abstract neon sculpture which is suspended within the three atria of the new Southmead building. The sculpture uses a series of lines and circles to define a functioning binary clock.
"What excites me about the commission for Southmead is the challenge of creating an artwork for both a unique space (the three large atria forming the concourse) and context, the context of a hospital. This is the first time I have created work for a hospital environment and I hope that it will be able to contribute something that is beautiful, challenging and inspiring for the people who come to the hospital as visitors, for the people who work there and most important for the people who have to go there as patients. The subject of time I think is very relevant for a hospital in many different ways. For some it can't go by quick enough, others need more of it... That's why I decided to make these three light sculptures, that for those who know the principle of the binary clock, can easily be read as clocks.
"To those who do not know or discover the principle the suspended lights will remain an abstract light sculpture without functionality. However the varying yet repetitive changes that occur within the sculpture will cause the viewer to scrutinize the reason for these changes and the principle can easily be decoded just by observing it over a period of time."
Rehberger has an international reputation for his various forms of artistic work: sculptures, industrial objects and handcrafted objects. Drawing on a repertoire of everyday objects appropriated from everyday mass culture, Rehberger translates, alters and expands ordinary situations and objects with which we are familiar. Rehberger's objects and environments mimic the glossy perfection of the manufactured yet their idiosyncrasies in terms of their colour, size, function and location demand new rules of engagement on behalf of the beholder.
"What excites me about the commission for Southmead is the challenge of creating an artwork for both a unique space (the three large atria forming the concourse) and context, the context of a hospital. This is the first time I have created work for a hospital environment and I hope that it will be able to contribute something that is beautiful, challenging and inspiring for the people who come to the hospital as visitors, for the people who work there and most important for the people who have to go there as patients. The subject of time I think is very relevant for a hospital in many different ways. For some it can't go by quick enough, others need more of it... That's why I decided to make these three light sculptures, that for those who know the principle of the binary clock, can easily be read as clocks.
"To those who do not know or discover the principle the suspended lights will remain an abstract light sculpture without functionality. However the varying yet repetitive changes that occur within the sculpture will cause the viewer to scrutinize the reason for these changes and the principle can easily be decoded just by observing it over a period of time."
Rehberger has an international reputation for his various forms of artistic work: sculptures, industrial objects and handcrafted objects. Drawing on a repertoire of everyday objects appropriated from everyday mass culture, Rehberger translates, alters and expands ordinary situations and objects with which we are familiar. Rehberger's objects and environments mimic the glossy perfection of the manufactured yet their idiosyncrasies in terms of their colour, size, function and location demand new rules of engagement on behalf of the beholder.
Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger
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