Riaan van Zyl’s career is quickly gaining momentum, both in South Africa and internationally. His work focuses on everyday objects, people and places, and invokes a drama reminiscent of early cinematography. Compositionally, objects often overlap with a lovely progression of form and movement. Layered amongst the forms are draftsmen-like lines, formulas and measurements, as if trying to quantify the movements and vast areas he captures.

The UNISA graduate recently held a solo exhibition titled ‘me•chan•i•cal m??kanik?l mechanical’ at The Hague (The Netherlands) in May 2014. The exhibition featured works based on the idea ‘that we have gone from capturing and copying movement to analyzing t...