Irideus Bulla

Jan Kaláb’s sculptural installation Irideus Bulla plays an ambivalent game with the viewer. The structure of geometric abstraction of a mathematically calculated object constructed according to the laws of physics and statics, color harmony, and the rules of perspective is supposed to be static and solid. But these exact parameters are paradoxical: the object does not behave like a cold and rigid monument. On the contrary. It appears as a biological species, a skeleton or a cellular shell still pulsating, breathing, or perhaps even coming to life. The dynamic yet subtle energy of light makes everything even more dramatic. Have we discovered an unknown creature from ancient times in a Prague square? Or have we witnessed the landing of an unidentifiable flying object from an ecosystem other than our own?

The Irideus Bulla installation offers space for our own imagination. It does not tell us how our world is or should be. It invites us not to be afraid to see the invisible and to perceive harmony even where everyone else sees only chaos at first sight.

The author of the music is Petr Kaláb.