Angela Bulloch Heavy Metal Stack of Three: Krypton Griffin, 2021

Heavy Metal Stack of Three: Krypton Griffin is from a series of sculptures—assembled from modular shapes—that combine Angel Bulloch's interest in the logic of geometry and seriality with graphic and sculptural qualities. The surface of the vertically assembled rhomboid shapes, painted in three colors, creates an optical illusion of pushing and pulling planes, giving the work an almost abstract quality, shifting between two and three dimensions. The appearance of the sculpture shifts according to one’s point of view: from one side the irregular aspect catches the eye, while from another the impression of a certain totemic regularity prevails.

Conceived and designed within a digital program transposing notional Euclidian geometry into a three-dimensional sphere, the artist conjures up sculptures in a weightless space, allowing virtuality and reality to coexist, at the same time transferring major themes of Minimalism into the present.