Artist Erwin Redl’s installation “Whiteout", which measures 110 feet wide by 180 feet long by 12 feet tall, incorporates 900 transparent white spheres suspended via cabling from a grid of steel poles. A white LED is embedded in each orb, and each orb floats 2 feet above the ground plane of the lawn. The artist’s computer-generated wave pattern sequences across the spheres from north to south and south to north creating “a luminous white carpet of LED lights” and a source of public illumination during the short, dark days of the winter.
In “Whiteout” Redl aims to explore “the use of white in modern and contemporary sculpture”. Trained in composition and electronic music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Redl is known for his light projections on building façades. His work is inspired by the artists of the Southern California Light and Space movement, such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler.