Frozen inside blocks of clear resin, swirling, gestural brushstrokes seem to drift in midair. Fabian Oefner is not any stranger to the polymer substance, which may be poured right into a mould in a liquid kind and cured right into a strong. In his newest collection, Volumen, the artist transforms paint strokes into bodily objects with dynamic dimensionality.
Oefner’s follow has usually centered on the character of gravity and movement, suspending objects in bodily sculptures or photographing autos and machines within the model of exploded diagrams. He typically deconstructs gadgets like cameras or sneakers, reassembling them in puzzle-like compositions (beforehand).
The artist has at all times been fascinated by the textural high quality of paint, particularly within the work of Summary Expressionists who emphasised gestural motions, mark-making, and spontaneity—or a minimum of the looks of it. Oefner says:
For me, experiencing works like de Kooning’s “Door to the River” or Pollock’s “Lavender Mist” has at all times been as a lot a tactile expertise as a visible one. These work are nearly like sculptures to me. What I’m doing is eradicating the canvas solely and lifting the paint into area, making its physicality utterly tangible.
Discover extra on the artist’s web site.
