Kyle Morland
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This black and white photograph depicts a dramatic, angular architectural structure emerging from a lush, tree-filled landscape. The geometric, spire-like forms create a striking contrast against the organic, foliage-covered surroundings. The stark, monochromatic palette, along with the interplay between the rigid geometric shapes and the natural, flowing forms, suggests a modernist or brutalist architectural style. The artwork seems to explore themes of the relationship between man-made structures and the natural environment, as well as the tension between order and chaos. The striking visual juxtaposition and the artist's evident technical mastery in capturing this scene make this a compelling and thought-provoking work of contemporary art. ...
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Kyle Morland
1986 , South AfricanKyle Morland is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily works with sculpture, photography, and video. His artistic practice revolves around the manipulation of materials and experimentation with form and spatial relationships. Morland creates his artwork while adhering to self-imposed formal constraints, such challenges he gives himself. His sculptures demonstrate a playful engagement with proportion, balance, and dimensionality. His continuously growing archive of photographs resonates within his sculptures as he borrows and stretches industrial materials, reimagining functional forms and structures. To produce his sculptures, Morland often creates functionless forms or "tools" in his studio, which often resembles an industrial workshop. Concealing the making of his large sculptures, Morland erases visible seams that once identified the parts as separate. This produces a gestalt sensation, that is juxtaposed by the laying bare of certain aspects of his systematic process, such as the installation of single units. Morland's work focus' on transitions, while referencing industry and the body, fragments and unity, process and play. ...
Kyle Morland: Artworks
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Cape TownBased in a 360 sqm gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town, blank was founded by Jonathan Garnham as a project space in 2005 and transitioned into a commercial gallery during 2012. The gallery represents emerging and increasingly established artists from the region in a critically engaged programme that emphasises contemporaneity, with a focus on concept and abstraction in the African context. With an exhibition programme that has a reputation for shaping the discourse around contemporary art in South(ern) Africa, and participation in prominent local and international art fairs, we seek to place our artists' work in a wide range of private and institutional collections. In addition, blank continues to promote the visual arts in our community through ongoing projects that support the sector. ...