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NOT A STILL FRAME (HYBRID) by Sandro Kopp
October 22 - November 12, 2010
Opening Friday, October 22nd
7- 10pm
Brachfeld Gallery is proud to present Not a still frame (hybrid), an exhibition of paintings by Sandro Kopp, for the first time in Paris.
Not a still Frame (hybrid) is a series of portraits executed in front of the computer during skype-video-conversations with friends and family. The work is an expression of the artists long exploration into balancing the presence captured in live portraiture sittings versus portraits painted from a photograph. It is also an "Offering" to human engagement; the continued existence of warmth and connection within new technologies of communication. "In exploring these questions - in trying to distill the essence of the difference between these modes of painting - I had the idea of paintings made during video-web-chats: a hybrid of a painting done from life and a painting done from a photograph stripping the elements of three-dimensionality and presence away, putting a lens (of the webcam) between me and my sitter - but maintaining the elements of time passing and conversation: of engagement."
32-year-old Sandro Kopp is half-German, half-New Zealander. He lives in the far north of Scotland. He started drawing and painting at a very young age and his art has been exhibited since his childhood. He has lived in many places, including Paris, and still spends much of his life travelling with a mobile studio.
His work was selected for the exhibition “Junge Kunst 69” at Heidelberger Kunstverein as well as “REAL Symposium für figurative Kunst” in 2007 and 2009. He exhibits regularly with Krauts Gallery in Germany. He showed at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in the BP Portrait Awards exhibition, as well as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
In New Zealand, he has shown at a number of galleries including the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. He was highly commended in the biennial New Zealand Portrait Awards in 2004. His piece 'The New Me' - a work comprising 28 self portraits executed each consecutive day for a month - was shown at HP Garcia Gallery in New York, May/June 2008 in the exhibition “Present”.
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