Reflection

source: danielpopper

This installation was built for Afrikaburn 2013. It stands 9 meters high with 3 levels.
On the bottom level is an LED infinity mirror heart with 17 different simulations programed by Justin Eastman.
This work was made possible by all the generous donations received far and wide and the Epic build crew who volunteered their time and energy to be apart of this. Chris Shelvey, Rob Bennicci,Jennifer Bam, Alain Ferrier, Blaise Janichon, Mark Davis, John Dodds- and Shayne Freeburry and Graham Smith From Procraft Floors in George.

Born in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Daniel Popper is a man with a knack
for creating artworks that bring fantasy to life. Having earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
(with distinction in Oil Painting) at the renowned Michaelis School of Fine Art in
Cape Town in 2006, his career has developed onto a global stage with many mediums of art such
as puppetry,performance,instillation and sculpture.

The spark that ignited Daniel’s career was the creation of his first giant puppet for
the AfrikaBurn art festival in 2007. The attention generated by this saw Daniel
commissioned by mobile operator MTN to produce 14 more for Fan Fests around
South Africa during the FIFA World Cup 2010. At the same time, Daniel’s
solo exhibition of oil paintings was held at the Obert Contemporary gallery in
Johannesburg. Since 2010, the popularity of Daniel’s puppets have seen him
interviewed on South African television for shows such as Woza M-net, Supersport
and Top Billing, and saw him take the puppets to the Portuguese electronic music
festival, Boom, and build a new giant puppet for the Young Illustrators Awards in Berlin.

Expanding his work on puppets, 2011 saw Daniels’ gorilla puppet featured at many
Cape Town events (such as Earthdance, the J&B Met, an MTV Base concert and
the Adderley Street parade).
In the same year Daniel participated in a group painting show at Salon 91, with his oil paintings curated by Andrew
Lamprecht in an exhibition titled ‘Figuring Difference’. On his return to AfrikaBurn
in 2011, Daniel’s large-scale sculpture ‘Hand Of God’, which featured an Argon
laser that beamed across the festival site, was a highlight for many festivalgoers. This
sculpture was instrumental in Daniel being commissioned by Siemens and Ogilvy to
create a 15-metre Baobab tree featured 3,000 LED lights and was powered by solar
panels and bicycles, for the COP17 climate change conference in Durban, South
Africa. In 2011, Daniel attended the Burning Man festival in Nevada for the first time.

With interest in his projects growing, 2012 saw Daniel commissioned to build two
25m Quetzalcoatl serpents for the Boom Festival, which were suspended above the
crowd in the main dance temple. Subsequent to this, he embarked on a world puppet tour, which saw
him perfroming his puppets at three festivals in The Netherlands (De Deining, Zwarte
Cross and A Day In The Park), as well as at Boom in Portugal and at Burning Man in
the USA.

Daniels interest in interactive art, puppetry ,art and architecture in public spaces, stage design and installation art, continues to expand, all the while still engaging with the fine art world and oil painting.

Daniel Popper currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, where he
regularly partakes in the South African culinary pastime of braaing.
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source: decyclopaedia

Daniel Magnes Popper (* 17. August 1913 in Oakland (Kalifornien); † 9. September 1999) war ein US-amerikanischer Astronom. Daniel Magnes Popper (* 17. August 1913 in Oakland (Kalifornien); † 9. September 1999) war ein US-amerikanischer Astronom.