Painted Video by Daniel von Sturmer

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Painted Video

Painted Video

Artist

Daniel von Sturmer
Production Date

2009
Medium

single channel video, high definition (HD), 16:9, colour, silent
Size

2min 46sec
Credit

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2009
Accession Number

C2009/1/17/1
Accession Date

11 May 2009
Department

New Zealand Art
Classification

Audiovisual
Collection

Chartwell
Description

Melbourne-based artist Daniel von Sturmer’s video
constructions playfully draw attention to the trickery of image making. A cast of simple materials makes his meticulously choreographed experiments seem deceptively low-fi. Painted Video’s hypnotically expanding targets of liquid paint are less video works than they are animated paintings. Von Sturmer tackles the moving target of representation: evoking the geometric formalism of modernist painting through an image on a screen, he investigates the boundaries between real and represented spaces.