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 RUDY KEHKLA — Each of Rudy Kehkla's wire sculptures starts from a sketch. Placing the sketch on the wall and using bright lights to cast a strong shadow, Rudy begins bending wire to match the shadow lines, carefully rendering his two dimensional line drawing as a three dimensional sculpture. Movement plays an important role in Rudy's work. Most of his subjects inspired by movement, whether he is depicting athletes in mid stride or musicians in mid note. Many of his sculptures have kinetic elements as well. Just walking by his pieces creates a breeze that sets each piece in motion--a violinist bows, a guitarist plucks, and a tree bends and weaves in the wind. Rudy maintains that "my sculpture is mainly composed of air. I use bits of wire only to define that part of air to which I want to draw my audience's attention...minimal visual clues to assist the mind to define space, or enclose a volume." With flat black or glinting bronze as his brush, Rudy Kehkla teases the eye to discover multiple views of his characters drawn deftly from single metal wires. Dancers, athletes, musicians, beloved artists such as Chaplin and Lennon. "I suggest what is there", Kehkla says, "The wire alone is not the whole work. I provide clues to the total image, but imagination completes it — the mind's eye, ability to see the whole dimensional shape, and see it from a variety of angles, as with a hologram." Kehkla defines their essence with subtle hints and mischievous detial, as resilient wire captures the taut curves of a ballerina's calf, freezes the explosive tension of a skier, or curls to create a buttock or a button. Although he has worked on abstract themes, Rudy Kehkla's primary interest has always been the living form. His first medium was found-stone sculpture, created from red granite pieces painstakingly hand picked from the rockfalls and beaches of Georgian Bay's north shore. He began with miniature "inuk-shuks", the towering Esquimaux stone men which march across the tundra - relying upon gravity and serendipity of fit to hold the stones in place. Later he began experimenting with diamond saws and drills, epoxies and steel armatures to create intricate balances and cantilevers and metamorphosing stone rubble into figures both whimsical and compelling in their powerfull presence. "For all its apparent delicacy, it's a remarkable strong medium and I find more life and inferred movement in curves than I could in the planes and angles of stone." Kehkla no longer works in stone. He relishes the greater freedom and expressiveness he has discovered in metal wire. Rudy continues to work passionately, always experimenting with new forms and approaches. With each new piece his work becomes more compelling, dynamic and fluid - wire has become, like ink from a pen, a direct expression of his creative vision. Contact CHASEN GALLERIES for further information about RUDY KEHKLA and his works. |
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