This ever-changing, large-scale music and light installation evolves slowly around the audience, who can relate to it as a conventional painting while aware that the same combination of images will never be seen again.ħ7 Million Paintings is an example of what Brian Eno calls ‘generative art’: “One of the things which strongly draws me to generative art is the idea that the thing is so big, in that there are so many variations, that not even the artist can see all the possibilities. We thank you for your support.Ĭonceived by Eno as ‘visual music’, 77 Million Paintings, a constantly evolving sound and image-scape born from his continuous exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of generative software, will be installed at the RHA Gallery, January 2019.
Donation can be made to donation box in the gallery. You can listen to 77 Million Paintings here Exhibition Notes:ĪDMISSION FREE – SUGGESTED DONATION €5. But in the end it is the simplicity of the experience that captivates – looking at changing colour and pattern in a darkened room while lounging in a couch listening to hypnotic music. The technological revolution of computing and digital technology has created a means for Eno to widen this palette and sophisticate the environments he creates. With Eno the visual manifestation of his ambient music has always been an abiding preoccupation. The audience response as I recall it was the same – long visits, repeat visits, allowing the immersive environment to take them into its charm.īrian Eno, like many of the artists and artistes that broke through in the 1970s attended art college. Then the TV’s were bulky diode tube, the VR was VHS tape, the sound system transistor, the environment was looser with the electronic glow from the TVs rolling through various colour wheels gently illuminating the darkened space. I first presented Eno’s installations at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in the Spring of 1986.
A multi-screen wall combined with rolling ambient music, carpeted floor and couches to draw people in to spend hours in the gallery and yielded many return visits.įor me, it was a powerful authentic symphony of the visual and the aural, and it was a little more… another chance to work with an artist after thirty-three years, a lifetime.
It was a mesmeric installation turning the voluminous space of the main gallery into meditative and intimate environment. Over 30,000 people visited the RHA in January and February 2019 to view the Brian Eno exhibition.
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