(Exhibition video) mosaique 4x4x4 rgb

<mosaique 4x4x4 rgb>(2013) is an experiment about interaction between color and matter, and tries the method of intersecting at right angles. LAb[au], a studio which is mostly active in Brussels has continuously explored kinetic parts bawd on algorithm. The tiles are illuminated by three light projectors in red, green and blue color. The white illumination of the tiles, resulting from the mixing of the three primary colors, is decomposed by the tiles’ motion in colored shadows displaying the primary and secondary colors of light. In addition, each tile can be activated by a linear motor retracting it 10cm from the installation’s vertical plane. The individual control of the tiles’ motion creates three-dimensional reliefs based on geometric patterns. Color shadows appear and disappear, crossing order and disorder, according to the motion of tiles moving back and forth. The formation of patterns underlines the geometric design whereas random arrangements underscore the mixing of colors.

The installation’s elementary visual and architectural vocabulary forms a neo-plasticist work using the additive principles of light, instead of the subtractive one of paint. Through algorithmic logic and the composition, the installation reconciles simplicity with serendipity, geometric order with randomness.
In LAb[au], a studio locased in Brussels, Manuel Abendroth, Els Vermang, and Jerome Decock work together. Their artworks are made through modern materials and techniques, and methods, but have traits of conceptual art, system art, and art concret. Colors and geometric composition, and movement of light of artworks show that they have the same tendency of using reductive, sequential, and simple languages.