Kandinsky's Follies
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100 × 140 cm
Giclee Print on Museum Quality Archival Paper
Signed Limited Edition Artwork
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The Story Behind the Artwork
Kandinsky’s Follies emerged from one of those serendipitous moments when an artwork suddenly reveals what it has been trying to say.
Photographed at close range from my kayak, the image is a reflection from the surface of the water. The colours originate from a vessel, but movement has transformed them into something entirely different — elongated figures, ribbons of blue, white and gold, and shapes that appear to dance across the surface.
For some time, I couldn't find the right title.
I saw dancing figures in the reflection and found myself thinking about the great theatrical follies and the choreography of Busby Berkeley, where individual figures become part of a larger, constantly moving pattern.
Then I encountered Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisations.
Kandinsky used the idea of musical improvisation to explore a world in which colour, line, rhythm and form could be liberated from literal representation. Looking at these works, I recognised something familiar: not a similarity I had consciously sought, but the same sense of movement and spontaneity I had discovered independently on the water.
Suddenly, I understood my own image.
Kandinsky’s Follies is also about improvisation in the way I make art. I don't construct or pre-plan these images. I take my kayak onto the water and search — responding to light, wind, movement, colour and whatever appears momentarily on the surface.
A reflection may exist for only a fraction of a second before the water transforms it again.
Here, the vessel supplied the colour.
The water created the choreography.
Artwork Details
- Artwork
- Signed Limited Edition Artwork
- Size
- 100 × 140 cm
- Edition
- Edition of 5
- Material
- Giclee Print on Museum Quality Archival Paper
- Artist
- Ralph Kerle
Acquiring the Artwork
Each artwork is personally inspected and signed by Ralph and supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity.
The edition is released progressively. As the edition advances, the value of each subsequent artwork increases.
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Making the Artwork
Ralph Kerle creates his abstract artworks from real reflections found on the surface of water. Working from a kayak at water level, he photographs the constantly changing interaction of light, colour, movement and reflected forms.
The compositions are discovered rather than constructed. There is no compositing of separate images: the abstraction exists momentarily on the surface of the water and is captured through timing, position and movement.
This process has developed into a distinctive body of work in which the camera becomes less a documentary instrument and more a way of painting with reflected light.
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About Ralph Kerle
Ralph Kerle is an Australian contemporary artist based in Sydney. His work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally. Working with a camera, he discovers real abstractions in reflections on water, creating artworks that explore light, colour, movement and perception.
