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Professor Richard de Marco, Demarco European Art Foundation, said: ‘In all my years of visiting the Australian pavilion, since the day it opened, I believe that Daniel's exhibition reveals its true beauty and elegance as a space. It is indeed a pavilion with a difference with a thought provoking exhibition tailor made to every unique aspect of its interior.'

Lance Fung curator of the SITE Santa Fe Biennale 2008 said: ‘Daniel's exhibition challenges the visitors with its architectural elegance and unique integration of media and objects. In Daniel's work the representation of objects has shifted to a minimal ethereal thread unifying the unique and two levelled pavilion.'

Von Stumer says: ‘ its been a fantastic and exciting experience to see people taking the time engaging with the exhibition and there has been excellent dialogue about my work.'

The Object of Things

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Located at the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.
Take Vaporetto #1 line, the closest stop is Giardini/Biennale. Follow directions to the Australian Pavilion.

Opening Times
Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 6pm
Monday closed

About the exhibition and artist
Daniel von Sturmer’s work involves a range of media, which explore the relationship between pictorial space and real space, expectation and perception.

With The Object of Things, von Sturmer continues his ‘experiments with space’, he has constructed video installations and architectural interventions especially designed for the Australian Pavilion in the Giardini.

These new works aim to test how it is we see what we see, bringing the unique spaces of the Pavilion into play. Video sequences confound viewers’ sense of space, scale and orientation through experiments with gravity and weightlessness, movement and stillness.

Recent shows include: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art 2006; Centre for Non Objective Art, Belgium 2006; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand 2005; The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand 2004; Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany 2003; Reisefreiheit: Neue Kunst, Germany 2003; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain 2002.

Daniel von Sturmer was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Click to Daniel’s site www.danielvonsturmer.com/

Daniel von Sturmer is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne.

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