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The Yuanfen New Media Art Space preserves its Bauhaus architectural tradition while continuously metamorphosing into new spaces with each exhibition as artists interact with the space creating site-specific projects. The space was originally part of the 798 Electronics Factory and produced ceramic resistors. An original industrial potter's wheel and Rapido scale from Radebeul, Germany, still in the space, bring the threads of the past into the new media fabric of the space.

Koda Metamorphy at Yuanfen Nov. 29 - January 31, 2010

Yuanfen New Media Art Space Presents

Kodda - Metamorphy

Opening: November 28, 2009

Kodda
is a nomad in a digital matrix; he plays with his brushes as he
produces music and paintings - distorting time, sampling a color, a
texture, a gesture, and blending them with the constant ebb of
influences fed to himself to create a "unique and polyphonic"
interpretation of modern painting.

"[Kodda]
morphs and mixes Masters, reinterpreting their work and rejuvenating
the Classical genre". One of the inherent principles of the Renaissance
was to look to the Classical to solve the problems of the future; this
is echoed through Kodda in the modern day. He bears the characteristics
of a Renaissance man in his multi-faceted nature and pursuit of
aesthetic perfection, utilizing mixed media and exercising his creative
talent in a diversity of fields. Kodda, as an artist, exhibits great
versatility and maintains a strong sense of aesthetic balance; making
creative use of cutting edge digital technologies in arrangement,
augmentation, manipulation, painting and music production (he mixes
music tailored to each exhibit opening). Kodda looks to the powerful
statements reflected in iconographic religious art from the Renaissance
to capture the tools needed to "transcend the human element and capture
the ethereal" in his own work.

A
more contemporary reference point for Kodda's work is the Steampunk
movement as it pertains to art. The movement, which derives its name
from steam-powered machines, cherishes elements of a bygone Victorian
era through the lens of past visions of future grandeur. Although
Steampunk is not directly reflected in Kodda's work, it shares the same
romantic spirit. Kodda delves back to the Renaissance with an eye to
the future; he is by very definition a modern-day Renaissance man.

There
are many artists that inspire Kodda -- Carvaggio, Ingres, Poussin and
Van Loo, just to name a few. And while Kodda and his Renaissance Master
role models may be separated by time and their respective mediums, but
they are united through unity of concept and aesthetic principle.