Each Rainbow Must Contain the Chromatic Signature, it..., Magnus Müller Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2008
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Neidich's close relationship to Los Angeles and his interest in the works of the California Light and Space artists like James Turrell, Robert Irwin and Maria Nordman served as the inspiration for the large sculpture installed in the front of the gallery. Infinite Regress, 2008, is a three-sided pavilion, each side consisting of a 3m x 2,8m steel frame upon which ready-made automatic transparent glass sliding doors, like those found at airports and department stores, have been attached. Each door is tinted in one of the primary colors red, blue and yellow. The doors' opening and closing is activated through the passing motion of visitors in the gallery whose presence stimulates an invisible eye in this case an infrared sensor. Visitors as actors are also encouraged to move into and through it. Their actions and secret relations with the "work itself" endlessly EXCITE the superimposition of the transparent colored door surfaces upon each other, producing the secondary mixtures of violet, green, and orange. As a social conduit, the pavilion is embedded in the tectonics of the gallery, situating itself at the juncture of its three adjoining spaces. This relational and performative work is primarily the result of random gestures and circulatory patterns of the visitors inhabiting the gallery. Yet there is always the possibility that these same visitors might form temporary alliances with each other to create a variety of emergent colored effects and affects.
