KYLE MORLAND
Masked Maquette for 120/16, 2015
Statement:
“An underlying theme and interest throughout all my work is space, and its relation to things that surround it. How one can activate a dead space and create a new discourse after altering its form and vice versa? The materiality of passage from emptiness to fullness must be physicalized in the material used, yet if that material is to convey emptiness it must be dematerialized. These opposites are exactly what instruct its surroundings. To play with light from dark, inside to outside, small to big and heavy from light.”
Kyle Morland
Blued.
Installation View ‘Node’, 2015.
RobbenIsland, 2013.
About:
Morland (1986 Joburg) often creates the tools necessary to realize his ideas. These tools, while allowing easier metal formation, add a set of formal constraints to the creative process. Morland’s sculptures exploit these self imposed creative constraints in an intuitive way, confirming his interest in Modernist Abstraction and the subtleties of implied space, physical and visual tension and absence.
Double Ended Saddle Cut, 2012.
Kyle Morland (b.1986, Johannesburg, South Africa) lives and works in Cape Town. He graduated from the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2009. He has taken part in multiple group exhibitions, most recently Flag New York City, curated by Randi Grov Berger as part of Performa 13, and his first solo exhibition at blank projects, FALSEWORK, was held in 2011, followed by New Sculptures in 2013. In 2012 Morland was also selected as one of Wanted Magazine’s Young African Artists. (text Blank Projects SA)
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