Angela Bulloch Heavy Metal Stack of Six: Copper Nut, 2024

Suitable for indoor and outdoor installation, Heavy Metal Stack of Six: Copper Nut is a sculpture that consists of six modular elements made from painted steel. The surface of the vertically assembled rhomboid shapes is painted in three colors and creates an optical illusion of pushing and pulling planes.

Angela Bulloch's series of sculptures examines the connections formed by the geometrical shapes of their structure, together with their associations of colors, and the exhibition space. Conceived and designed within a digital imaging program, each superimposed module appears distinct while at the same time relating to the others.

By changing the appearance of the column in accordance with one’s point of view, Bulloch plays with our perception of sculpture while orchestrating our experience as gallery visitors. In order to envision the work in its entirety the viewer has to turn around it, which at times seems graphic—almost abstract—shifting between two and three dimensions. Here, the artist transfers major themes of Minimalism into the present, and more specifically the aesthetic exploration of objects’ influence on spatial perception.