{"id":15862,"date":"2015-05-25T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/?page_id=15862"},"modified":"2015-05-25T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T21:37:18","slug":"15862-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/?page_id=15862","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Reuning<\/span><\/strong>
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\nMay 29 – July 5, 2015<\/span>
\nOpening Friday May 29, 6-9pm<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Kevin Reuning, “Scenic Vistas”, 2015, HD video, oscillating fan, projector, 65 x 24 x 24 inches, installation view<\/span>
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Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present\u00a0source material<\/em>,\u00a0the first solo exhibition of works by Bushwick-based artist Kevin Reuning (aka kevvy metal). With\u00a0source material<\/em>\u00a0Reuning expands his practice of computer 3D animation through new installations, paintings, digital prints, videos and sculptures based on the models, plugins, and other elements, considering concepts of identity, authorship, and online sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In several of the works on view the artist offers user generated \u201cassets\u201d, from open source sites, new and unintended existences. Digital print works “My Perfect Homes\u201d, “PT Cruisers\u201d, “Moogs”, “Things Wearing Tophats\u201d, “Mjolnirs” recreate and flatten onto aluminum all the 3D models resulting from a search that uses the respective title as keyword on Google Warehouse. While in the video installation \u201cScenic Vistas\u201d, plugins found on C4Depot for four landscape scenes (arctic, desert, mountain, ocean) are animated by the artist to play from a projector mounted onto an oscillating fan, to create a low-fi, but sensory immersive experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kevin Reuning, “PT Cruisers”, 2015, dye sublimation on aluminum, 40 x 60 inches<\/span>
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Animation tools provide both subject and content in works including the artist\u2019s flashe on canvas paintings. Trading mouse for brush, Reuning duplicates the original \u201ccamera paths\u201d or three-dimensional trajectories composing the audience\u2019s point of view during the animation process, this time with human imperfections. A laser sculpture that finds the beam trapped in 2-way mirrors is inspired by another essential and programmed\u00a0element\u00a0of 3D animation \u2013 light. And, for his latest 2-minute HD video \u201cSpiral\u201d, the artists offers a\u00a0black & white world of geometric objects, within a downpour of spirals and their reflections, made entirely with the default shapes of the Cinema 4D software.<\/span>
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\nClosing out the exhibit is a vertical vinyl banner reproducing each frame of a 3D gif of the artist’s head that appears on his website and an animated video of the site url “kevvymetal.com<\/span><\/a>“, which together form the physical half of a digital self-portrait, the other half of which is to be found online.<\/span>
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Still from “Spiral”, 2015, single-channel HD video, silent, 2 minutes<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKevin Reuning (aka kevvy metal)\u00a0is a Brooklyn-based artist working in moving image, installation and digital art. His work often involves visual explorations of virtual worlds and sculptures he creates using 3D elements assembled via software or collected from the web.\u00a0Reuning’s work was featured in the 2014\u00a0Pratt Upload\u00a0at Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts and he released his first ebook “A Few Visuals” in September of the same year. Among his curatorial projects is the VHS publication MONOBROW made in collaboration with Julian Glander.\u00a0Kevin Reuning\u00a0graduated in 2012 from Boston University in Film and Science and has previously exhibited his work at the Boston University Art Gallery, Pratt Digital Arts Gallery, and Microscope Gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Reuning source material May 29 – July 5, 2015 Opening Friday May 29, 6-9pm Kevin Reuning, “Scenic Vistas”, 2015, HD video, oscillating fan, projector, 65 x 24 x 24 inches, installation view Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present\u00a0source material,\u00a0the first solo exhibition of works by Bushwick-based artist Kevin Reuning (aka kevvy metal). With\u00a0source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15862","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15862"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15862\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microscopegallery.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}