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Daniel Adam Levi
Recent Monotypes, 2020All painting and mark making is abstract and the paint is the primary bearer of the message, much like tone is to music.
South African born Daniel Levi is an artist, writer and director living in Cape Town. After graduating with Honours in Fine Arts in 1995 he worked in design, visual arts and post- production and transitioned into directing in 2002. Daniel was featured in the Saatchi and Saatchi’s young directors showcase and won best new director at Kinsale. Daniel has directed campaigns for clients such as VW, HSBC, X-Box, Mercedes, Nike and Playstation.
Daniel has directed music videos for Massive Attack, LFO, Interpol, The Prodigy, The Concretes and Plan B, many of which come up on many all time best lists. LFO Freak won the prestigious Music Video Production Association Award (MVPA) in LA for Directorial Debut.
His short films have featured at various film festivals worldwide and have been awarded Staff Picks at Vimeo.
He lived and worked in London from 2003-2010 before returning to Cape Town, where he continues writing and filmmaking.
As screen writer, his feature film script ‘Bethlehem', developed over the past few years, goes into production in October 2021.
“Subjects, the carriers of paint, human forms, faces, vessels of identity, made nebulous through paint, rendered from found images; photography, film; disappearing, reappearing in the process - remade in another medium, to become garbled memories. They may reflect the zeitgeist in some form, looking at identity, power, narrative; never spoon-fed to the viewer.
Subjects hide behind the paint - armatures for texture, form, colour. All painting and mark making is abstract and the paint is the primary bearer of the message, much like tone is to music. Through a marriage of intention and risk, vibrancy emerges; the intangible, transcendent potential energy of paint.”
Daniel has directed music videos for Massive Attack, LFO, Interpol, The Prodigy, The Concretes and Plan B, many of which come up on many all time best lists. LFO Freak won the prestigious Music Video Production Association Award (MVPA) in LA for Directorial Debut.
His short films have featured at various film festivals worldwide and have been awarded Staff Picks at Vimeo.
He lived and worked in London from 2003-2010 before returning to Cape Town, where he continues writing and filmmaking.
As screen writer, his feature film script ‘Bethlehem', developed over the past few years, goes into production in October 2021.
“Subjects, the carriers of paint, human forms, faces, vessels of identity, made nebulous through paint, rendered from found images; photography, film; disappearing, reappearing in the process - remade in another medium, to become garbled memories. They may reflect the zeitgeist in some form, looking at identity, power, narrative; never spoon-fed to the viewer.
Subjects hide behind the paint - armatures for texture, form, colour. All painting and mark making is abstract and the paint is the primary bearer of the message, much like tone is to music. Through a marriage of intention and risk, vibrancy emerges; the intangible, transcendent potential energy of paint.”
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