Erwin Redl in Gföhl, Lower Austria is an Austrian-born artist currently living in USA. As artistic
medium he uses LEDs. His work includes installations, videos, graphics, computerart and electronic music.
Matrix II is the premiere showing of the artist's theatrical scale light-emitting diode (or LED) artwork since
it was acquired by MCASD in 2007. This room-size work offers viewers a space that seems to recede in
all directions, as if the walls were mirrored. Floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall, the room is filled with
grids of phosphor green LEDs, creating an immersive web of light.
The work consists of thousands of tiny LEDs deployed in a dense grid that fills the entire volume of the
museum’s largest gallery. The faint glow emanating from each of the LEDs combines with all of the other’s
to saturate the gallery with a light-presence that seems almost physical and appears to extend beyond
identifiable limits. The experience is so unlike the real world that our senses normally encounter that a visit
to “Matrix II” can be quite unnerving in a benign, even cleansing way.
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