Kyle Sattler: Endings are Beginnings
14 January, 2014 - 2 March, 2014
AV Gallery
Kyle Sattler, The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis and the Lost Epochs of Man (still) (2013), Moving image animation (HD video)
The moving image animation works featured in this exhibition illustrate the process of painting and drawing a moving organic form. Invented as an antidote to the static restrictiveness that can be associated with painting, this didactic approach is partly intended to convey the method by which a traditional painting or drawing is constructed.
These works have grown out of a desire to explore the movement of drawing, and the action of the drawing moment. Through their creation, the artist develops a method for exploring rhythms, time signatures, motion evolutions, speeds of application and comparisons with musical compositions.
Sattler hopes to create a sense of evolution by using subtle or abstract narratives, where specific themes vary from one animation to the next, but the relationship of the animated images to human existence and experience remains constant. The crossover between multimedia and classical art techniques helps to maintain the contemporary relevance of more traditional art forms of painting and drawing, by changing and expanding on how a drawing can be experienced.
Kyle Sattler, Animated Chalk Drawing Series (still) (2013), Moving image animation
About the Artist:
Kyle Sattler was born in Morrinsville, New Zealand, in 1974, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts the Quay School of the Arts in Whanganui, New Zealand in 1999. A multimedia artist working in paint, video animation, music, environmental sculpture and digital design, he now resides in Auckland.