Daniel von Sturmer : Set Piece

About

The work for Site will link the two gallery spaces, mediating the viewer's experience of the gallery context and the 'work' within it. A number of small video projection screens will be integrated into the fabric of the gallery and the new spatial intervention. Using these discrete elements the work forms a synthesis of experience in which the viewer is able to be an active, participatory agent and arbiter of meaning.

The new video works will play with the spatial dynamics of pictorial space using familiar everyday materials and objects in new and unexpected ways. The depicted spaces will reference and echo aspects of the structure and the gallery space itself, creating vignettes which interface the real and the pictorial. The videos are intended to be playful, humorous and thought provoking, referencing themselves as visual conceits and pointing to the construction of the visual language we rely on to describe and define the world.

More on Daniel von Sturmer:
Daniel von Sturmer's work involves various media to explore questions about the nature of perception, the embodiment of time and how context and framing shape the meaning and experience of an artwork. They reveal video's inherent ability to render space and time as malleable and elastic provoking questions about our conception of both. When presented in a gallery these works are often projected as short video loops in installations involving multiple screens, sculptural objects and architecturally scaled constructions.

Born 1972, Auckland, New Zealand

Education
2002-2003 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997-1999 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Master of Arts by Research
1993-1996 RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Arts, in Fine Art, Honours

Recent Solo Shows
2009 Painted Video, Anna Schwartz Gallery at Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
2008 Tableaux Plastique, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007 The Object of Things, The Australian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy
2006 The Field Equation, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Limits of the Model, Anna Schwartz Gallery at The Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 Into a Vacuum of Future Events, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Screen Test, as part of Experimenta Vanishing Point, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

www.danielvonsturmer.com

Daniel von Sturmer's exhibition at Site Gallery has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body in addition to generous support from Arts Victoria.