Here’s a new short found-footage video. A Spectral Viewer can be viewed here, with further info, bibliography etc.
Tag: Artwork
A Crooked Path Through The Dark
February 8th, 2022
My new film, A Crooked Path Through The Dark, is complete. Here’s the trailer. More info, including a full press kit, can be found here.
UNTITLED DRAWINGS — New Publication
May 1st, 2021Very happy to announce that I’m releasing a new publication collecting a series of drawings made over the last few years. Hand-numbered and signed limited edition with 48 works, as well as texts by artists Sergi Botella and Paco Chanivet. More info soon, until then here’s a video trailer for it :::
David Franklin – text by Albert Mercadé
April 1st, 2021
“Magma and combustion, expansion and reduction. These are biologically based rhythms that also feature in the work of David Franklin. His series of drawings are of chronotypic ascendancy: sequences of condensed temporality in which the artist freezes abstract rhythms and projections that dilate or contract the space-time in which life unfolds. Macro worlds — the cosmos — and micro worlds — cellular biological processes — are often represented at moments of explosiveness or maximum intensity at a time of expansive growth. In Franklin’s recent work, these moments of organic combustion have generated more diaphanous, contained drawings in which accidental stains and traces appear subtly over indeterminate arquitechtural spaces. To the artist’s gaze, they appear as echoes of memory which (as in the case of Xavier Grau), he attempts to distance himself so as to represent the form we see in the most direct and simple way possible.”
Albert Mercadé, from the catalogue to the exhibition “Our Garden Needs Its Flowers” at Tecla Sala, L´Hospitalet, April 2021.
Castellano:
Magma y combustión, expansión y reducción, son ritmos de base biológica que también se ponen en juego en la obra de David Franklin. Sus secuencias de dibujos son de ascendiente cronotípico: secuencias de temporalidad condensada en las que el artista congela ritmos y proyecciones abstractas que dilatan o contraen el espacio-tiempo donde se despliega la vida. Los mundos macro — el cosmos — o micro — los procesos biológicos celulares — a menudo están representados en el momento de explosividad o de máxima intensidad de un periodo de crecimiento. En la obra reciente de Franklin estos momentos de combustión orgánica had dado lugar a dibujos más diáfanos y acotados, donde aparecen sutilmente manchas y trazos accidentales sobre espacios arquitectónicos indeterminados, y aparecen a sus ojos como ecos de la memoria, de la que, como Xavier Grau, trata de distanciarse lo más posible a fin de representar la forma visitada del modo más directo y sencillo.
Albert Mercadé, del catalogo de la exposición “Our Garden Needs Its Flowers” a Tecla Sala, L´Hospitalet, abril 2021.
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival
September 2nd, 2019
My project Out of Earth and Sky has been selected by the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival for development at their Expand Lab, which I’ll be attending as part of the festival from September 4th to 8th. More info here:
http://www.bidff.ro/eng
http://www.bidff.ro/e-x-p-a-n-d-en
More info about Out of Earth and Sky here.
New trailer for “Out of Earth and Sky”
December 20th, 2018
I’ve made a new trailer for my new long-term artistic project, Out of Earth and Sky, which you can see here. This video features Norihito Ishii of Sankai Juku, who is one of the artists collaborating with me on this project.
New work: Out of Earth and Sky
May 10th, 2018I have posted a trailer for my new long-term artistic project, Out of Earth and Sky. More info here.