Koloman Wagner
Compact Melodies 3, 2024, pine wood, 14 x 12.6 x 23.6 in
Airborne, 2023, pine wood, 14 x 11 x 25.2 in
Compact Melodies 1, 2024, pine wood, 22 x 20 x 23.5 in
Compact Melodies 2024
Jonglage, 2023, pine wood, 51 x 35.5 x 65 in
Boomerang, 2023, spruce wood, 35 x 43 x 49 in
Ouroboros, 2024, spruce wood, 75 x 44.5 x 43 in
Carousel, 2023, pine wood, 27.5 x 27.5 x 31.5 in
Eudaimonia, 2024, pine wood, 11.5 x 11.5 x 43.3 in
Galactic Symphony, 2024, pine wood, 63 x 51 x 92.5 in
Kaleidoskop, 2023, pine wood, 31.5 x 31.5 x 69 in
Loops, 2023, pine wood, 18 x 16 x 16 in
“The central tool of my artistic practice is the transformation process between music notes and spatial form, but also between object and movement. On the one hand, my sculptures are created by transferring snapshots from video templates onto wooden elements, cutting them out, layering them on top of each other and gluing them together. On the other hand, my sculptures are created by using a parametric algorithm to translate musical notes into radial curves made of layered (wooden) elements. A melody, a sequence of frequencies, then corresponds to a sequence of radial curves with different radii of curvature corresponding to the wavelength. Using this mechanism, I transform spatial objects into melodies and I use compositions in the form of notes as a “construction plan” for new sculptures. In the interplay, sculptures and music merge into audioplastic installations.”