Daniel von Sturmer's 'Focus & Field' exhibition surveys video works at Pacific Design Center
The exhibition 'Focus & Field' by Daniel von Sturmer is currently on display at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, showcasing approximately 20 video pieces created over the last five years, with curation by Paul Young. It features earlier works from 2008 to 2013 alongside a fresh series titled 'Camera Ready Actions' from 2014. Hailing from Melbourne, von Sturmer employs backprojection techniques on translucent screens. Among the significant pieces are 'The Cinema Complex' (2010), which comments on cinematic norms, and 'Set Piece (Sequence 4)' (2009), which delves into the notion of failure. The exhibition, which took place in October 2014, marks his transition from illusionistic to conceptually focused works.
Key facts
- Exhibition 'Focus & Field' features Daniel von Sturmer's video works
- Curated by Paul Young at Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood
- Includes around 20 works from the past five years, divided into two sections
- Older works from 2008-2013 include 'The Cinema Complex' and 'Set Piece (Sequence 4)'
- New series 'Camera Ready Actions' from 2014 focuses on empirical measurement
- Von Sturmer uses backprojection onto small screens, avoiding immersive scale
- Works reference Marcel Duchamp's Rotoreliefs and involve balancing objects
- Exhibition took place in October 2014
Entities
Artists
- Daniel von Sturmer
- Marcel Duchamp
Institutions
- Pacific Design Center
- ArtReview
Locations
- West Hollywood
- United States
- Melbourne
- Australia