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Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is the first West Coast survey of the internationally renowned Swiss media artist. Rist’s installations explore relationships of video and the body; exterior environments and interior psychological landscapes; and reason and instinct. The exhibition surveys more than thirty years of the Zürich-based artist’s work, encompassing early single-channel videos; large-scale installations brimming with color and hypnotic musical scores; and sculptures that merge everyday objects, video, and decorative forms.
Pixel Forest Transformer (2016) is an immersive installation comprised of 3,000 LED lights hanging from the gallery ceiling. The individual lights represent one pixel of a video, so all together, the forest creates one cohesive video. Pixel Forest Transformer (2016) is now on view in Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor is on view September 12, 2021 - June 5, 2022. This exhibition is organized by Anna Katz, Curator, with Karlyn Olvido, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at moca.org.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is the first West Coast survey of the internationally renowned Swiss media artist. Rist’s installations explore relationships of video and the body; exterior environments and interior psychological landscapes; and reason and instinct. The exhibition surveys more than thirty years of the Zürich-based artist’s work, encompassing early single-channel videos; large-scale installations brimming with color and hypnotic musical scores; and sculptures that merge everyday objects, video, and decorative forms.
Pixel Forest Transformer (2016) is an immersive installation comprised of 3,000 LED lights hanging from the gallery ceiling. The individual lights represent one pixel of a video, so all together, the forest creates one cohesive video. Pixel Forest Transformer (2016) is now on view in Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor at The Geffen Contemporary.
Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor is on view September 12, 2021 - June 5, 2022. This exhibition is organized by Anna Katz, Curator, with Karlyn Olvido, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at moca.org.
