Jacky Winter is pleased to present Seen and not seen by Dylan Martorell; a temporary music video production studio.

Seen and not seen is a production studio for audio-visual collaborations between Dylan Martorell and various members of Melbourne’s music and video art scene. Collaborators include Spinach Triangle, Hessian Jailor, James Grant, Benjamin Hancock and Lichen Kelp as well as members of Ambulance, Judo Bronze and Amphibious Vehicle.

Handmade instruments, improvised choreography, robotics and DIY electronics will be combined with green screen video, various sculptural props and primitive special effects to create a series of music videos onsite with this impromptu collective of practitioners. The remnants of the music videos will make up an accumulative installation. Album cover artwork will adorn the walls and a number of screens will feed back the finished artworks as they’re produced.

The open studio format will allow the public to witness the often unseen creative act of music and video production in its various phases of creation. Viewers are encouraged to drop in during gallery hours throughout the exhibition to view the work in progress from day one - Wed Oct 26 - before the results of Martorell’s various music video workshops and collaborations are unveiled during the public event two weeks into the project - Sat Nov 5 - for an open afternoon of video viewing and live performance.

Dylan Martorell is an interdisciplinary Melbourne-based artist. His art manifests in a range of forms from traditional pencil and ink drawings to sound and sculpture-based installations. Martorell’s practice is inspired by elements of the natural world as well as explorations of global cultures, often juxtaposing tradition with contemporary found objects. His work typically involves a highly disciplined and refined level of detail, intertwined with ad hoc improvisation and a bowerbird aesthetic.

Martorell has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally over the past decade. Select solo exhibitions include: Hazrat Prototypes, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (2013); D’ameublement, curated by Francis E. Parker, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland (2012); Agaues de Marco, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2011); Duppy Musique Povera, Object Gallery, Sydney (2011); Musique Povera, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2010); Roda Roda Soundsystem, streets of Yogyakarta (2011); Splintered Guilders, Lamington Drive, Melbourne (2009); Stolon Tonals, Black and Blue, Kraton, RoomMate Gallery, Yogyakarta (2010); Umbel Ballits, Craft Victoria, Melbourne (2008); Hinterdact I and II, Über Gallery, Melbourne (2008); Panter Cluster Rimbone, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (2007).

Select group exhibitions include: Never-Never Land, Roslyn Oxley 9, Sydney (2014); Future Primitive, curated by Linda Michaels, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2013); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2012-13); Sonic Spheres, curated by Victoria Lynn, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra (2012); Bellowing Echoes, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2012); Melpore Stringsects, Esplanade, Singapore (2011).