Bull.Miletic

Bull.Miletic will be exhibiting at Gallery Paule Anglim
August 1 - September 1, 2023 | Opening Reception Thursday, August 2

Heaven Can Wait, 2001-on going
Multiple-channel video installation, Edition of 3
In conjunction with "Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible"
at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA



Individual Videos:

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present a new video installation, “Heaven Can Wait” by the collaborative duo Bull.Miletic. The work will be shown partly at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a concurrent show, DARK MATTERS. Fifteen of the multi-channel video works will be shown at Gallery Paule Anglim, fifteen in a large installation at YBCA.

For several years, Bull.Miletic (Norwegian artist Synne Bull and Serbian artist Dragan Miletic) have traveled the globe, assembling this remarkable series of films, all shot from revolving restaurants around the world. “Heaven Can Wait” features the hypnotically turning view from thirty different revolving restaurant towers in places from California to Austria, Norway to Cairo. The revolving motion of the serial images echoes the turning of the earth and the cycles of day and night that mark time.

In his essay in Metropolis Sept. 1998, writer Tom Vanderbilt provides a context for the restaurants:

"The revolving restaurant is an American idea that conquered the world… As the long postwar boom of American-led trade and tourism marched on through the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties, these spinning dining rooms became symbols of optimism, progress, and success…To begin to understand their appeal, one must now look to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where the revolving restaurant is still seen as a sign of progress--an emblem of prosperity, not kitsch. Indeed, they have become more indicators of economic development than adornments to the skyline."

International artists Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic both studied in their native countries before completing MFA degrees at the San Francisco Art Institute. As a team they have exhibited in Norway, Germany, Serbia, Brazil and the US, where they were featured artists in the 2006 California Biennial.

Unfinished, 2007
22-karat gold emboss in 300g Arches 100% cotton paper
15" x 22", Edition of 20



Gymnopedies, 2007
edition of art stamps (triptych), inkjet print on perforated paper
8 1/2” x 11”, Edition of 20



Wiegenlied , 2004
Single-channel video installation, DVD player,
video beamer with built-in speakers, pillow
16'35" (loop), Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #1), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #2), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #3), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #4), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #5), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #6), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #7), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #8), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #9), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #10), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #11), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #12), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #13), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #14), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3



Wiegenlied (Video Still #15), 2004
Archival digital print, mounted on aluminum, coated with UV laminate protective surface.
12” x 12”, Edition of 3

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce the presentation of a new video work by the collaborative artists BULL.MILETIC.

The artists Synne Bull and Dragon Miletic will show a video installation, Wiegenlied. This poetically succinct work features a revolving image projected onto a pillow on the floor. A lullaby sound element accompanies the visuals in motion.

“In our video installations we work with the notion of time as a presence of space rather than a particular duration. By juxtaposing space to different time sequencing away from the familiar, we obscure the unity and recognize the beauty of a fragment.”

BULL.MILETIC's work has been shown internationally at venues such as the Pasadena Museum of California Art; Oakland Art Gallery; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco; Circa Gallery, Montreal, Canada; Transmediale, Berlin, Germany; and IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

BULL.MILETIC were Artists-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, in 2003 and produced Wiegenlied while in residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin in 2004.

Synne BULL was born in Oslo, Norway in 1973 and received her BFA in 2001 and MFA in 2003 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She studied History and Theory of Theater at the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1998 and Philosophy and Science Theory at the University of Oslo in Bali, Indonesia in 1997.

Dragan MILETIC was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1970 and received his MFA in 2000 from the San Francisco Art Institute and his BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia in 1997.

Upcoming Exhibitions:

Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Curated by René de Guzman. Features "Heaven Can Wait," 2001-on-going
July 28 - November 11, 2022

Communism of Form
Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Curated by Fernando Oliva and Marcelo Rezende. Features "Whir," 2002 and "Gymnopedies," 2002
July 20 - August 4, 2023

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