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Atlanta's Premiere Contemporary Art Gallery presents - Daniel Motz: "Reliquaries of the Machine Age" For more info: www.lowegallery.com or [email protected]TRANSCRIPT
BILL LOWE GALLERY
Celebrating our 26th Anniversary
Atlanta’s Premiere Contemporary Art Gallery
Daniel Motz - Untitled NR 24 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 70 x 96 Inches
Daniel MotzDaniel Motz emigrated to the U.S. from Arad, Romania in 1978 and went on to receive his MFA in Motion Picture and Television at UCLA in 1984. His work in film informs his approach to assemblages. He uses the matte finish to unify the ob-jects into one cohesive assemblage the way editors use film to unify thousands of individual pictures into a movie. Motz harvests parts an array of mechanical devices such as vacuums, typewriters, cameras, projectors, printers, reel to reel tape decks, etc. Motz avoids abstraction and representation with his realistic approach, allowing the pieces to remain identifiable.
Daniel Motz has collected the detritus left in the wake of our technological progress. These assemblages serve as an archeological record of where we’ve been and who we were shaped by the bits and pieces of machinery that sur-rounded our daily lives. Motz has taken that sense of history and turned it on its head by reconstructing them in such a way as to evoke the sense of future worlds and modernized cities. Most assemblages are finished with a matte black spray that unifies the culturally disparate and obsolete fossils into a singu-lar piece designed to hold the ruin of our mechanical past into beautiful reli-quaries.
“Untitled NR 24” Gallery Installtion Shot
Untitled NR 23 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 70 x 96 Inches - 2014
Untitled 8 (Tower of Babel)
Mechinical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 45 x 45 Inches - 2012
Untitled 8 (Tower of Babel) (Aerial View)
Untitled 8 (Tower of Babel) (Side Aerial View)
MA 4-19 B - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 48” - 2015
Untitled 26 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 48 Inches - 2015
Born in the RYB - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 48 x 48 Inches - 2012
Born in the RYB (Detail Shot)
“Untitled NR 17” Gallery Installation Shots
Untitled NR 17 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 57 x 57 Inches - 2014
“Streets of Gold” Gallery Installation Shot “Streets of Gold” - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 48 Inches - 2014
Untitled NR 16 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 26 Inches - 2014 Untitled 9 - Mechanical Elements and Mixed Media on Panel - 48 x 72 Inches - 2013
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