FUKINSEI (#1)
2016
Oak, steel, varnish
300 x 110 x 40 cm
FUKINSEI (#2)
2016
Oak, steel, varnish
300 x 110 x 40 cm
[...] Walkowiak creates two objects, formal compositions of materials suggestive of benches, that play on the notions of proximity and distance and the evanescence of display and situation. The titles, Fukinsei (#1) and Fukinsei (#2) (2016), are a reference to Japanese aesthetics, where asymmetry (“fukinsei”) is one of the seven principles of “wabi-sabi,” an attitude of mind rooted in acceptance and contemplation of the imperfection, perpetual transmutation, aging, and impermanence of all things. In the context of Eastern thought, the objects’ fragmentary forms seem empty; the emphasis is less on abiding than on volatile contact in passing.
Text: Marlies Wirth,
Photos: (c) MAK / Alsan Kudrnofsky