Anna Schwartz Gallery will present Daniel von Sturmer’s ongoing series Electric Light (facts/figures…) as part of Melbourne Art Fair’s free Virtual Art Fair taking place from 1-7 June 2020 in partnership with Ocula.
As part of the public program, Anna Schwartz Gallery Director Tania Doropoulos will participate in a live discussion, conducted online on 4 June 2020, that explores the topic of An artworld in crisis: overcoming the impact of COVID-19. The panel discussion will be moderated by VAULT Magazine Editor Alison Kubler and includes Gagosian Gallery New York Director Louise Neri and Mark Hughes, Director Mark Hughes Advisory.
Daniel von Sturmer’s works orchestrate a field of relations between people and things, light and space, video and time, where the encounter between audience and artwork reveals a dialectical interplay of viewer and viewed. His approach is experimental, playfully testing expectations of quotidian occurrences and ordinary experience.
Electric Light (facts/figures/…) is an animated light installation that illuminates the architectural features of the space in which it is located. Using a moving head profile light, site specific programming and custom-built stencils, the work projects light to create an animated sequence of ‘figures’ that interact with the architectural context. An iteration was presented at Anna Schwartz Gallery in early 2019.
A combination of humour, surprise and simple framing, the work draws attention to the construction of a space. The facts of the site are made evident: leftover plugs and hanging fixtures, walls, windows, power sockets and security cameras, sprinkler systems and supporting beams, all become characters on a stage.
Beginning on 11 June the gallery will be open by appointment on Thursday and Friday afternoons, and fully open on Saturdays from 1–5pm. The Gallery will re-open with Groups + Pairs 2016 – 2020 by John Nixon, which only had one public day before the closure.
For more visit: annaschwartzgallery.com
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