Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will exhibit Copenhagen Cycles by Eric Dyer, a visual artist, filmmaker, and experimental animator, whose work is based on the zoetrope, a pre-cinema optical toy. The exhibition features looped video projections of fast-moving photographic images of Copenhagen – ferries, buses, wheels, architecture, swans, wind mills, flowers, the sea, cobblestones, and the connecting thread of a cyclist in a Viking hat – that whirl across the screen to dizzyingly effect. Dyer’s intricately hand-crafted zoetropes, which can be activated and viewed through a special lens, show how the zoetrope works in astonishing ways. Prints of clips from the videos comment on the relationship between stillness and motion. Exploring a visual language of loops and spirals, Dyer creates an intuitive portrait of the city of Copenhagen.

Copenhagen Cycles is Eric Dyer’s first solo exhibition in New York. His award-winning films have screened internationally at numerous festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, South by Southwest, and the Ottawa, Annecy, Melbourne, and London International Animation Festivals. His work has also been exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Exploratorium, the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2012.